Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been 23 years since Fidel Castro, then a beardless young rebel of 30, set sail with a revolutionary band of 81 guerrillas from the Mexican port of Tuxpan for Cuba's Oriente province. Last week the hirsute Cuban leader returned to the land from which he had launched his successful revolt against the government of Fulgencio Batista. At the invitation of President José López Portillo, Castro made a 32-hour visit to the resort island of Cozumel, with a brief stop on the mainland. Between meetings with López Portillo, who effusively welcomed...
...Soviet and Cuban involvement in Africa. If there are countries that use Russian and Cuban military aid, then they are forced to do so in order to counter American aggression. We don't see that as Soviet military interference...
...Hsiao-p'ing, who is chief of staff of the P.L. A. More than anyone else in the Politburo, Teng has been personally identified with the invasion. If it should be perceived as a flop in the future, opponents could conceivably use it against him, much as the Cuban missile crisis was used against Khrushchev. Some diplomats noted that last week another, lesser known Vice Premier, Li Hsien-nien, had assumed an expanded role as Peking's spokesman...
...Saud, was receiving his South Yemeni counterpart when the violence broke out. The two men had been arranging a visit to Riyadh by South Yemen's President, Abdel Fattah Ismail, in an attempt to relax regional tensions, ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army on alert, recalled 1,000 troops assigned to the Arab peace-keeping force...
Townley described how he and five conspirators−the three defendants plus two other Cuban exiles who are still at large−put together a bomb, which Townley attached to the chassis of Letelier's light blue Chevelle and then detonated by radio. Letelier was blown to pieces, along with an American assistant, Ronni Moffitt, 25. Townley expressed regret only for Moffitt's death. Said he of Letelier: "He was a soldier, I was a soldier...