Word: cuba
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...world's biggest trading bloc say the agreement would empower multinationals at the expense of human rights and the environment. The plan would create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by the end of 2005, stretching from Canada to Chile and covering 800 million people - but excluding Cuba...
JESSE HELMS Onetime Mexico foe goes south of the border to expand his horizons. Next stop, Cuba...
COSTNER DOES CUBA, DANCES WITH DICTATORS...
...from some of the world's poorest and smallest nations, as well as some of the most populous and richest, including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground. They represent a potential clash of every conceivable kind of interest (except one, since nondemocratic Cuba is excluded), made more acute by the economic uncertainty. And as a carefully stage-managed event designed to cement pan-American solidarity, the Quebec City summit, like its predecessors in Miami and in Santiago in 1998, inevitably raises questions about the hemisphere's ability to rise above national interests...
...Cuban exiles bolstered by U.S. training and equipment would march triumphantly from the Bay of Pigs into Havana where the people would rise against Castro. If that did not happen, the force was to slip into the mountains and launch guerrilla warfare. Instead they were captured by Cuba's 20,000 troops, leaving Castro to stand even taller astride his small world...