Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smaller Soviet military-assistance groups have been kicked out of Indonesia, Ghana, Albania, the Congo and the Sudan. Seldom since the Cuban missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
Poor sportsmanship? Enraged over losing a game to Steinitz, British Master Joseph Blackburne reportedly threw the eminent mathematician out of a window. World Champion José Capablanca (1921-27), the dashing Cuban roue, was a notoriously bad loser; before he would admit defeat in one match in Havana, he demanded that the mayor clear the room of all spectators. After taking the title from Capablanca, Alekhine refused...
...rematch and would walk out of the room if the Cuban's name was mentioned in his presence. Upon losing one match, Latvia's Nimzovich jumped on the table and shouted: "Why must I lose to this idiot...
...Soviet Union have been pressing Hanoi to settle the war. Even the expected denunciations of American "imperialism" that Fidel Castro voiced in Moscow last week as he ended a ten-day visit to the Soviet Union seemed more ritual than rage. The suspicion persists that a U.S.-Cuban reconciliation is not out of the question -especially in light of a recent remark by Castro that "there is no such thing as a permanent enemy...
There must be an "unconditional withdrawal of the American Guantanamo naval base, which, contrary to the sovereign will of the Cuban people, exists on Cuban territory," it added...