Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added, "wants no special position or sphere of influence in Africa." American interests would be "best served by an Africa seeking its own destiny free of outside intervention." Clearly referring to the Russians, who imported 13,000 Cuban troops into Angola late last year to put a client in power in the former Portuguese colony, Kissinger added: "The rivalry and interference of non-African powers would make a mockery of Africa's hard-won struggle for independence from foreign domination. It will inevitably be resisted...
...thinking of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50. His policy for the region, formulated in 1969, envisaged complete maintenance of the status quo for the white minority regimes, including the Portuguese colonies. But the Portuguese revolution of 1974, and more importantly for cold warrior Kissinger, the successful use of Cuban troops and Soviet arms against American and South African intervention in the Angolan civil war, have forced him to adapt his strategy to the changing realities of Southern Africa. It is in this context that Kissinger's current diplomatic initiative in Rhodesia must be understood...
Perhaps the most politically sophisticated film to emerge from contemporary Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment depicts the struggle of a young bourgeois intellectual to come to terms with the Cuban revolution. Sympathetic to the dilemmas of his situation, the film nevertheless conveys a strong sense of the meaning of the revolution for the Cuban people and of the dramatic changes in social relations it has brought about...
...Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that spurred U.S. and Soviet officials to install the famous Washington-Moscow "hot line." Apart from its symbolic value, they reasoned, the hot line would provide the kind of instant communication that just might help to avert nuclear holocaust...
...noncommitment to military blocs," said Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez of Cuba, should not qualify a country for membership among the nonaligned. Rodriguez pushed instead for the idea of "international solidarity" as "a permanent duty of the peoples committed to revolution." By that he meant such things as Cuban military intervention in Angola, a type of international solidarity that Rodriguez said would "not be interrupted...