Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerable standardization, especially in history and the other social sciences. Certainly not everyone outside the universities who studies history or current events goes into them very deeply. At an electric plant in Sian someone asked how people felt about Cuba's government. "We are friendly to the Cuban people," said the first worker, "our attitude to the government depends on what it does." "Our factory doesn't have any direct relations with Cuba," said a second. Two others gave slightly more detailed accounts, about how Castro was originally nationalist and anti-imperialist but today Cuba has great problems, being exploited...
...U.S.S.R. has not only replaced all the downed planes with fast MIG-21s but given the Syrians 45 MIG-23 fighter-bombers, the Russian equivalents of the vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well within Syria; for battlefield support, Moscow has sent 100 Frog missiles, which have a range of about 45 miles...
...more than Cuba. Earlier, there had been favorable reaction to the new hands-off U.S. policy, which Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs William D. Rogers described at Quito as "healthy." But Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio of Costa Rica, which had co-sponsored the Cuban measure with Venezuela and Colombia, was openly bitter. "We have helped the United States when they needed us," he complained, "but now that we need their help, they do nothing." After the Cuban proposal failed, some Latin American newspapers, and even diplomats, claimed that the OAS was dead. That clearly...
...under Lyndon Johnson. The commission's study firmly recommends an end to Cuba's isolation. It acknowledges that the Soviet use of the island as a strategic base is a legitimate U.S. concern, but argues that this is primarily a matter of U.S.-Soviet, not U.S.-Cuban relations. Continuing the OAS sanctions against Cuba "makes it easier for the Cuban government to justify and prolong its tight control of the intellectual and political activities of the Cuban people...
Ellsberg quoted "authorities in Washington" as telling him that G. Gordon Liddy, then counsel to the Committee to Re-elect the President, ordered "11 Cuban-Americans," including several of the Watergate burglars, to "incapacitate me thoroughly...