Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ptashne was recently involved in another incident relating to his Cuban activities. The N. Y. office of the U. S. Cuba Health Exchange, of which Ptashne is a sponsor, was bombed on March 30, causing heavy damages to medical supplies but no injuries...
Subsequently, an organization identifying itself as the Cuban Secret Government claimed responsibility for the bombing and sent letters to the health committee's sponsors, ordering them to resign, or else face further violent actions...
...first time it is used-will be a success, especially considering the trial and error process such lesser technological feats as the M-16 rifle and the F-111 went through. But Buckley is willing to blow the $5 billion anyway. Besides, he says, the fact that during the Cuban missile crisis "a significant minority of the Soviet General Staff counseled Krushchev to call the United States challenge-to refuse to withdraw their missiles" proves the irrationality of the Soviet Union and hence our need for the ABM. But if Buckley has read Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days he knows...
...Earl J. Williamson was assigned to the American embassy in San José as a political officer. Williamson, 55, also served as CIA station chief. While he was attached to the U.S. embassy in Havana during the Batista era, he had married the vivacious niece of a wealthy Cuban sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President-particularly after Don Pepe. having already established relations with Rumania, Bulgaria...
...moment, of mowing down tackles for real against L. S. U. in the mighty football stadiums of the South, with 50,000 sons-a-bitches booming for all hell to break loose, cameras focused on the gladiators, dreams of real glory not too far away-before that beady-eyed Cuban tackle for that slimy Catholic high school submarined him on the very first play of the season...