Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second was the report on Cuba by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who spent eleven days on the island. Talbott gathered notes on the Soviet presence, spoke with Cubans about Africa, and met with Fidel Castro for 2½ hours of freewheeling discussion. "Most heads of state I've encountered seem weighted down by their jobs," reports Talbott. "Not the Cuban Premier. He obviously has a lot of fun being Fidel Castro-and he does it well...
...biting comment may well have been aimed at U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who at one point dismissed the Cuban presence in Africa as "a stabilizing influence." Yet by implication, Brzezinski's harsh words could also have been aimed indirectly at Vance, whose expressions of Administration concern over Soviet and Cuban activity in Africa had been phrased with an almost Victorian gentility...
...Secretary ranged over U.S.-Soviet relations, NATO, détente, and Cuban troops in Africa, at no point backtracking on the harsh Moscow-aimed comments of Carter at Annapolis, but sometimes rephrasing them. For example, where Carter had bluntly offered the Soviets a choice of "confrontation or cooperation." Vance smoothly asserted that both sides would be "making choices between an emphasis on the divergent elements of our relationship and an emphasis on the cooperative ones." He referred to the tough Soviet reply in Pravda to Carter's Annapolis speech. Growled Pravda: "There is no end to attempts at interfering...
...normally boisterous Jaycees listened attentively as Vance stressed that Washington would not "mirror Soviet and Cuban activities in Africa." Such a course, warned Vance, "would only escalate military conflict with great human suffering." The Secretary listed a series of "positive" U.S. responses to the Soviet and Cuban presence. Among them: commitment to social justice and economic development, respect for African nationalism, and the fostering of human rights. That evening, as 80 Representatives and Senators gathered for an off-the-record briefing by President Carter, Vance's star seemed to ascend even higher. Though both Brown and Brzezinski were also...
...asking us to perform a great abstraction," complained Álvarez. "No, I'm not," said Solarz, "I'm just asking for your personal opinions." "Our opinion is free, open and democratic," explained Jiménez, "but it must coincide with the foreign policy of the revolutionary Cuban government...