Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arena was the Sixth Conference of Nonaligned Countries opening this week in the Cuban capital, which had been unusually well scrubbed and widely festooned with anti-American slogans for the occasion. For the 93 delegations from mostly Latin American, African and Asian countries, plus three guerrilla organizations, it promised to be the most critical ideological tug-of-war in the quarter-century-old identity crisis of the emerging Third World. The main question: Can the nonaligned family of nations continue to maintain its uncertain neutrality between the U.S. and Soviet superpowers-or will it lurch east and left and effectively...
...past few months, though, Cuba has been campaigning aggressively both to seize the leadership of the movement and to steer its political direction squarely into the orbit of its principal ally, the Soviet Union. Cuban delegates insist there is a "natural alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the "socialist world," meaning the Soviet bloc. In Havana the pro-Soviet drive can probably count on the support of such far-flung fellow Marxist regimes as Angola, which still harbors Cuban troops on its territory; Afghanistan, which relies on Soviet assistance to stave off an Islamic insurgency; and Viet Nam, which...
Lining up against the Cuban takeover bid is a broad group of mostly older nonaligned members led by Yugoslavia and including India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and others that are all determined to maintain the authentic independence of the movement. With equal fervor, they have been waging their own behind-the-scenes battle in diplomatic chanceries and ministries around the world in the name of moderation and the status...
...Kenton, 67, patriarch of progressive jazz; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When Kenton crashed onto the West Coast jazz scene in 1941, his fortissimo "walls of brass" sound struck some critics as "sheer noise," but his popularity endured long after the demise of swing. He helped introduce Afro-Cuban rhythms to U.S. pop, invented the mellophonium, a trumpet-French horn hybrid, and wed classical music with jazz both in his own dissonant compositions (Artistry in Rhythm) and in unorthodox interpretations of Wagner and Ravel...
...peace treaty condemnation was part of a final declaration that is sharply critical of the U.S. However many leaders at the conference shunned Cuban attempts to associate the non-aligned nations with the Soviet Union...