Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech after another, Henry Kissinger has been swinging harder and harder at an old troublemaker for Washington, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Last week during an appearance in Dallas, the Secretary used his firmest language yet, warning that the U.S. "will not accept further Cuban military intervention" in Africa and hinting darkly of "decisive action" if Havana refused to pay heed...
...opposes the Smith government; after all, it speaks for a minority of 278,000 whites in a country of some 6.1 million blacks. But Washington wants a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia, and it is anxious to head off a possibility of Soviet-Cuban intervention there. For one thing, an intervention of that kind would further tear the already badly shredded fabric of détente. More directly, it would leave the Administration uncomfortably facing a choice between two painful policy alternatives...
...could the U.S. deal with further Cuban adventurism? Kissinger is certain to be asked that repeatedly next month when he begins a two-week African tour that will take him to eight or more countries. Some American observers suggest that Kissinger's tough talk on Cuba might be aimed partly at countering domestic critics who charge that he has been too soft on the Soviets in his pursuit of détente. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late last week, Kissinger tried to temper the stir created by his most recent pronouncements. He said: "There...
...Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
...solar-research center. By funny happenstance, too, just before last week's election, the Air Force awarded an Orlando company a $33.6 million contract for missiles, and the Department of Transportation granted $15 million to launch a rapid-transit system for Dade County. In addition, Ford courted the Cuban vote by ordering more immigration officials to Miami to accelerate naturalization proceedings. He wooed conservatives by strongly suggesting to one of their leaders, Jerry Thomas, the party's 1974 gubernatorial candidate, that he would be named an Under Secretary of the Treasury...