Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break relations with Israel after the Six-Day War of 1967; it continued to trade with Franco's Spain and sharply criticized some Soviet policies in Latin America. In early 1968, Moscow retaliated by delaying some oil shipments to Cuba. By no coincidence, Castro then went on Cuban television to endorse the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Since then he has conformed Havana's foreign policy to Moscow's wishes...
...Cuba, President Fidel Castro was luxuriating last week in an ego-boosting extravaganza. Basking in a tropical sun and bedecked with banners carrying anti-imperialist and anti-American slogans, Havana radiated a fiesta-like atmosphere as Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators and Kings of 92 states flocked into the Cuban capital for the opening of the weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving co-founder of the nonaligned movement - to Communist fellow...
...Cuban leader made no secret of his determination to assert active leadership over the nonaligned movement and steer it in a more militant, pro-Soviet direction. The Havana summit was a major steppingstone toward a broadening of Cuba's international role - although just what that role is varies with the perspective of the beholder. To Washington policymakers, Cuba is a cat's paw of the Soviet Union, dispatching armed mercenaries to Africa in exchange for financial and material support. To the Kremlin, Cuba is a faithful Communist ally that shares Moscow's interest in defeating imperialism...
...most significant battles took place in the back rooms, where committees were hammering out the language of the final communiqué and tackling procedural matters that would affect the future shape of the movement. Here, at least, the moderates put up a stiff fight, proposing hundreds of amendments to Cuban draft declarations in an effort to tone down the pro-Soviet thrust. Another attempt to curb Castro's power was a proposal to expand the membership of the Coordinating Bureau, which acts on behalf of the movement between triennial summit meetings. By gaining some of the additional seats, moderates...
Even before the combat troops in Cuba were confirmed, the country was moving to confront itself about the SALT treaty, its military strength and its world leadership role. The Cuban episode will force a strategic review that will appraise Soviet intentions from the Persian Gulf to Panama, and American policy will be hardened in the new budget that takes shape before Christmas...