Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, it was Castro who called for the current negotiations, in the process tweaking the U.S. with the fact that Americans had accepted as refugees any and all Cubans who stole planes to reach the mainland during the early 1960s, and continue to look the other way when Cuban refugees "borrow" Cuban boats...
...been pressing for extradition or "severe" local punishment of hijackers. Cuba has agreed to "severe" local punishment but has not spelled out its view on extradition; up to now, it has always rejected U.S. pleas for extradition. For its part, the U.S. has agreed to punish severely Cuban refugees who commit piracy at sea or in the air, and to help prevent exile groups from creating "incidents" with Cuba...
That intention was put to the test almost as soon as it was expressed. Last week the U.S. Coast Guard towed into Key West, Fla., a 24-ft. Cuban fishing boat that had apparently been hijacked by three young Cubans. By week's end the U.S. had agreed to return to Cuba both the boat and its crew of two fishermen, who had apparently been coerced into taking the boat to the States. The three Cuban refugees will probably be prosecuted, but not turned over to Cuban authorities if further investigation determines that the boat was hijacked...
...beginnings of a thaw in relations between the two countries. Even if the thaw continues, both sides would have to concede a good deal more before diplomatic relations could be resumed. For openers, Nixon would most likely have to lift the U.S. ban on imports of Cuban sugar, and Castro would have to ease up on exporting subversion to other Latin American countries...
...doing it well When the China experts with three names apiece--John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service indicated that the Chinese Nationalists were losing and only a rapprochement with the Communists could prevent Chiang Kai-snek's defeat they were booted out of office as traitors When during the Cuban missile crisis Adlai Stevenson suggested that the United States remove from Turkey its obsolete missiles (which the President had already slated for the dustbin) so that the Russians could withdraw from Cuba and save a little face, the other government officials jumped on him and the proposal never received serious...