Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were other iridescent traces leading to the C.R.P.: a possibility that the Watergate forces planned to plant incendiary bombs in the hall during the Democratic Convention, or conspired to have the hall stormed by paid Cuban exile mercenaries. The Administration maintained silence, although Attorney General Richard Kleindienst did venture that the bugging was "just about the stupidest goddam thing I ever heard...
...spacious marble and granite palace on Lima's Plaza de Armas, Peru's leftist soldier-President, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, last week smilingly accepted the credentials of a tall, bearded diplomat named Antonio Núñez Jiménez. The new ambassador was a Cuban, the first from his country to take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime...
...prosperous Venezuela's middle-of-the-road Christian Democratic government. A rapprochement between Havana and Caracas, which was the victim of a particularly vicious Cuban-sponsored terrorist campaign in the early 1960s, would be a major coup for Cuba. It achieved a minor one last week, when Dudley Thompson, a Jamaican Minister of State, turned up in Havana to discuss trade and, possibly, resumption of airline service between Kingston and Havana...
...have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected Latin American statesman-Ecuador's Galo Plaza, Secretary-General of the OAS, is an eager candidate-to Havana to open a dialogue. An opening of sorts occurred in June, when three American scientists traveled-with Administration approval-to the Cuban capital for an eleven-nation conference on oceanography. The scientists had applied to go to a similar conference in Havana last year, but Washington had said nothing doing...
MIAMI. Condominiums dominate the entire metropolitan housing spectrum. Working-class families as well as the city's large community of Cuban expatriate businessmen and tradesmen are eager buyers of condominiums, which five years ago appealed most strongly to middle-class retirees seeking Florida's sun. Even the palm-draped skyline of stately Key Biscayne, site of President Nixon's Florida White House, is being reshaped by high-rise condominiums. Most recent addition is a group of six twelve-story high-rises on the beach...