Word: cuba
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Anton Boerner, president of the BGA, Germany's federation of exporters and wholesalers, is jittery. "When you listen to Mr. Rumsfeld comparing Germany to Libya and Cuba, you don't need much imagination to see that we must be careful," he says. And he's not alone. There's a growing fear among German, French and Belgian businesspeople that their countries' dovish stance on Iraq could harm trade with America. In Belgium, where diamonds account for 25% of trade with the U.S., the industry has warned of "disturbing" signals from American buyers. In France, cheese dealers report falling sales...
...lobby, which lodged a series of hysterical protests over the supposedly inhumane treatment of captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay, has long been reluctant to condemn the denial of personal liberties in Castro’s prison-state. Many activists still cling to the myth of Cuba as a “workers’ paradise,” and thus cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the realities of state-sponsored murder, torture and persecution that have typified life for Cuban dissidents since the revolution in 1959. An unfortunately large group of Western liberals, moreover, seem captivated...
...folly of their delusion. For the time being, however, proponents of Cuban freedom must not simply accept Castro’s tyranny as a normal state of affairs that cannot be changed—even though resigned complacency is the attitude that far too many Americans currently have toward Cuba...
...political and adding that nobody "acting on behalf of" the U.S.--such as contract killers--could assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
April 17, 1961 A brigade of 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs and is quickly defeated. Seven months later, President John F. Kennedy authorizes Operation Mongoose, a series of sabotage attacks on Cuba. The agency also develops several schemes to assassinate Castro, including two involving the Mafia...