Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban Delegation. This time, the major power was the U.S. At his press conference earlier in the week, Jimmy Carter had declared that recent events in Uganda-the reported murder of Archbishop Janani Luwum and two of Amin's Cabinet ministers-had "disgusted the entire civilized world." Carter added that he supported a British demand that the U.N. should "go into Uganda to assess the horrible murders that apparently are taking place in that country-the persecution of those who have aroused the ire of Mr. Amin...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski, learned of the Uganda developments at 7 a.m. last Friday from wire-service reports. At 8:30, during the routine morning briefing, he informed the President, who asked to be kept advised every hour of what was happening. There were American intelligence reports that a high-level Cuban military delegation, probably headed by a general, had arrived in Uganda. There were no Cuban troops in sight, but it was possible that the delegation had come to discuss the question of military support. The White House decided to consult other African leaders for advice and to avoid provocation...
...wiry, intense man with a head like a parchment-covered cannon ball and a passion for skin diving, Ferrer was born in Santurce, P.R., in 1933. In New York City in his early twenties, he supported himself as a drummer with bands in Spanish Harlem. Cuban music, he recalls, gave him "the ability to bring out the tropical, primitive, emotional conditions of one's roots into the open, and to rejoice in their messiness and to be ... proud of their contradictions...
Ambiguous Talk. A fortnight earlier, Young had made several highly naive comments-about the "stabilizing" influence of the 13,000 Cuban troops still in Angola, for instance-that the State Department was busy "correcting" for some days thereafter. Following talks with several African heads of state who were attending a national celebration in Tanzania, Young spoke ambiguously at times about the role Britain should play in a Rhodesian settlement...
Young was stressing his view that racism, not Communism, is the chief problem in southern Africa. Under prodding by CBS Newsman Dan Rather, he declared that "in a sense the Cubans bring a certain stability and order" to Angola. Henry Kissinger had always insisted that the Cuban presence was Soviet "adventurism," and that it must be withdrawn before U.S.-Cuban relations could improve...