Word: cuba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...CUBA Russia Closes Base Russian President Vladimir Putin said military officials had decided to close the Lourdes radar station in Cuba, which was set up in the 1970s and costs Russia $200 million a year to maintain. The U.S. welcomed the move, but Cuba said the issue had not yet been resolved. Around 1,500 Russians are based at the center, which houses electronic intelligence equipment and provides Russia with 75% of its military and strategic information about...
...past year alone, more than $410 million was paid out from frozen funds of Cuba and Iran. Relatives of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down by the Cuban air force in 1996 won $97 million, and the family of Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old New Jersey student killed in 1995 in a Hizballah attack in the Gaza Strip, got $22 million...
Stints in a tiny New York City apartment with her Spanish grandmother and wildly unstable uncles bookended 16 months on an extravagant and expansive sugarcane plantation in Cuba, where her grandmother worked as a companion to a wealthy relative, and where, Fox says, “no one said my name for hours at a time.” Fox’s parents repeatedly sent for her through the years, from Martha’s Vineyard, Florida and ultimately California, providing her with a few glamorous days only to pass her off on yet another friend or relative...