Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it is far easier to condemn McNamara in hindsight than it is to appreciate the Cold War atmosphere of the 1960s. To the policy makers of the time, Communism was a very real threat, proven by the crises in Berlin and in Cuba that brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of war. Fear of falling dominoes in Southeast Asia and of the credibility of U.S. commitments elsewhere led the administration into the quagmire of Vietnam...
Lifting the United States' embargo on Cuba would not guarantee an end to Fidel Castro's human rights violations, Jorge L. Mas Canosa, chair of the Cuban-American National Foundation, said in a speech Wednesday night at the Kennedy School of Government...
...felt it was important to found CAUSA to foster awareness of the Cuban culture in the Harvard community, and to support a free and democratic Cuba," he said...
...local police lieutenant hip to their gambling schemes, all of the usual locations prove too risky, and Nathan Detroit (Benjamin Toro), must scramble to raise the $1,000 necessary to rent out the Biltmore Garage. The infamous Sky Masterson (Joel Kurtzberg) breezes into town on his way to Cuba, claiming, amongst other things, that he can get "any doll to Havana" that Detroit names. Detroit, desperate for cash, bets $1,000 on a militant missionary named Sarah Brown. Their wager launches the requisite musical love story...
...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...