Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton). The passengers, after a two-night stay, flew on to San Juan, and the 747 was also released. Then, too, the Cuban government was watching with deep interest the exploits of 19 Cuban sugar technicians who flew into New Orleans with 20 minutes' notice to the air controllers and without visas to attend an international sugar conference; it seems they had been invited by the conference's officers, but nonplused...
Nyet to Da. Kosygin's four-day itinerary included a visit with Cuban workers during which he was presented with a hard hat to go with his Indian headdress. Two days were spent in discussions at the Palace of the Revolution, followed by a 460-mile flight to Santiago de Cuba. The plane arrived two hours late in a driving rainstorm. Nothing more momentous happened. Then had Kosygin come only to bolster Fidel's feelings? The best guess was that the Soviet Premier, who keeps watch over Moscow's foreign economic arrangements while Leonid Brezhnev supervises...
...assistance of then Senator Smathers, Rebozo, already wealthy, secured a loan from the Small Business Administration (founded to help struggling entrepreneurs), which had previously turned down his application. Later, in 1967, the SBA chose Rebozo to develop a Government-backed shopping center set up in Miami to help Cuban refugees go into business for themselves. Rebozo and a partner made...
...Russians' overwhelming military predominance in the northern flank is most evident in the icy waters of the area. Since the Soviet navy launched a massive buildup after the 1962 Cuban crisis, it has become, as Jane's Fighting Ships notes, "the supernavy of a superpower." Moscow's growing strength at sea has long since been noted in the Mediterranean and in the Indian Ocean. But the fact is that the northern fleet, the smallest in the Soviet navy at the end of World War II, is now the biggest-the superfleet of a supernavy...
There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...