Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last moment, Cabrera invokes Human Rights, assuming the voice of a mother wailing for a son left to die without medical attention in prison. But he does not assemble a moral argument; he is not even a Cuban Solzhenitsyn. He is a self-exiled superfluous man, out of touch with his society, venting his alienation in a very powerful book...
...need another kind of criticism, because pessimistic surrender leads nowhere. Beyond the loss that the exile of men like Cabrera Infante represents, a literary portrait of Cuba should consider the entire transformation of Cuban society. An evaluation of the Cuban revolution must judge its faults in the light of its accomplishments: the extension of economic justice, the political representation of the masses, and the establishment of a new national identity...
...Nikita Khrushchev. There is no direct evidence that the throb in J.F.K.'s back affected his ability to debate Khrushchev, but a few of his aides, who helped him in and out of hot baths, wondered about it. Kennedy knew the dangers of a weakened body. During the Cuban missile crisis, he insisted on his hour's nap and hot packs each afternoon, remarking that the worst thing he could do was to get too tired and lose his judgment...
...rout of UNITA raised the ominous prospect of a border war between the combined M.P.L.A.-Cuban forces and the South Africans, who have now withdrawn to a 1,000-mile-long strip stretching up to 35 miles deep inside Angola. British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned late last week that the world faces the prospect of a "terrible war in southern Africa" unless urgent action is taken to prevent it. The most acute danger, he indicated, would be "hot pursuit" by the Cubans into South West Africa, following a successful firefight with the South African troops in the border area...
...including some who had only recently argued that the danger of subversion from Havana was over. Venezuela, for example, led a fight within the Organization of American States to drop hemispheric sanctions against Havana. Now President Carlos Andrés Péres frets over reports of several hundred Cuban soldiers in nearby Guyana, a socialist state with which Venezuela for many years had a border dispute...