Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would probably take something as unlikely as a Cuban attack on the Panama Canal to prevent what now seems almost inevitable: restoration of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana. In recent weeks the Administration has lifted travel restrictions for Americans who wish to visit Cuba and begun bilateral talks with Havana on a new fishing agreement-necessary since both countries claim 200-mile offshore limits, but are only 90 miles apart. One plan currently under consideration by Washington is to set up an American-staffed "interest" section attached to the Swiss Embassy in Havana, which now represents...
...first group to visit the island under the new travel rules was a team of basketball players from South Dakota, accompanied by the state's Democratic Senators, George McGovern and James Abourezk. The South Dakotans were blasted off the court by the Olympic-class Cuban roundballers, but McGovern came home full of zeal for ending the 16-year-old trade embargo. Last week another U.S. group with a keen interest in that project went to Havana: 50 business leaders from Minnesota...
Most of the businessmen represented firms that did business in Cuba before the revolution: Honeywell, Pillsbury, General Mills, Bemis. They want to be in on the ground floor when the embargo is lifted-which virtually all consider certain to happen. But their Cuban hosts, cabled TIME Correspondent Chris Ogden, who traveled with the group, seemed doubtful at first. Over and over they asked their guests whether they really thought the embargo would end. Groaned one Minnesotan later: "How many times do you have to tell your wife you love...
Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...
...doomed." He finds that young people today are less ambitious than a generation ago, duller than in the '60s but more eager to find some meaning in their lives. Hesburgh keeps a close rein on his own ambitions, even as he enjoys the trappings of success, smoking a Cuban cigar and sipping a Grand Marnier. Ambition among churchmen, says Hesburgh, is corrosive: "I've seen it ruin so many...