Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Culture Shock. Miami's Cuban community took in four families-31 refugees-who were housed in a nondescript motel in the city's Little Havana section. "It's only natural," says Sylvia Goudie, who fled Cuba in 1960. "If we, the Cubans, don't help them, who is going to do it?" In Loma Linda, Calif., the Seventh-day Adventist community sponsored en masse the 388 doctors, nurses and medical technicians from Saigon's Adventist Hospital...
...quite. Washington is not yet prepared to lift the embargo, although pressures have been mounting within both the State Department and Congress for normalizing American-Cuban relations. Last week Senator George McGovern, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, flew to Cuba for a four-day visit. The former Democratic presidential nominee was the third Senator to make a factfinding visit to Cuba in the past eight months.* He went, as he put it, "to see for myself what the Cubans have accomplished in their system. I'm going to try to learn. I want to see what...
...recent months, he has also acted to restore free elections and a measure of democratic rule to Cuba. Castro's failure to hold free elections had become a major preoccupation of Cuba's 9 million people, as well as a popular refrain among foreign critics of the Cuban revolution. Last week Granma, the official Communist Party organ, published a draft of a proposed new constitution, which provides for an elected National Assembly; it is expected to be submitted to a public referendum later this year...
...press conference in Havana the next day, McGovern, visibly worn from a post-midnight Castro-conducted tour of the city, proposed that one starting point for bettering relations might be an exchange of baseball and basketball teams between the two countries-a suggestion the Cuban Premier immediately embraced. Added McGovern: "The embargo is foolish and self-defeating. The sooner we lift it the better. The next move where Cuba is concerned is up to the U.S." At week's end White House officials said that they welcomed Castro's conciliatory remarks, but that a formal lifting of diplomatic...
Salsa retains the two traditional types of Cuban ensembles: the conjunto, a descendant of street-festival bands, and the charanga, a miniature symphony orchestra with the bright lilt of flutes and strings...