Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a vast increase in naval power since World War II, when the Red fleet hardly existed; even as recently as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Kremlin had to back down in the face of U.S. naval supremacy. That, presumably, was a humiliation the Russians decided would never happen again. Since then Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet navy for the past 22 years, has modernized his fleet, increased its firepower and greatly extended its range. At one time his ships rarely ventured far from Russia's shores. But as he has commissioned new vessels that...
...still looking for a third suspect in the case--Rogelio Paz, from Union City, N.J. Sources in the FBI told The New York Times last week that Townley contacted the Cuban suspects at least two times during the summer of 1976, three months before the assasination...
...Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, on the other. The chief failing of the Smith settlement is that its terms are unacceptable to the Patriotic Front leaders, who do not believe that it truly establishes majority rule in Rhodesia; hence they have vowed to continue fighting and accept Soviet and Cuban aid if necessary. Washington and London are pressing for a plan under which a British resident commissioner, with the help of U.N. peace-keeping forces, would run a transition government and supervise elections in which all parties would participate...
...would see any value in such a meeting. U.S. officials were convinced, however, that the Rhodesians had listened carefully to at least two of the Vance-Owen arguments: that an accommodation with the Patriotic Front is necessary to stop the fighting and avert a larger war with Soviet and Cuban involvement; and that some kind of international presence would be desirable during the transition if the outcome of elections is to be globally accepted...
...limited to the counterculture. "Greasers like us too... we'd play at a bar in the Bronx where people came dressed like us not because they were role-playing but because they had never adopted bell bottoms. They were still wearing white socks and beehive hairdos and Cuban heels...