Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostilities date back to 1965, the beginning of a six-year airlift that brought 260,000 refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Miami. Just as the civil rights movement was beginning to open doors for advancement, blacks found themselves competing with the Cubans for jobs, housing and other opportunities. Since then, the number of Hispanics has more than tripled, to 825,000; they now outnumber blacks by 450,000. Cubans have become the dominant economic and political force in Miami. The city's first Cuban-born mayor, Xavier Suarez, 39, was elected...
...that embattled Central American country, as many as 200 refugees a day are hitting town. By the end of this year, an estimated 100,000 more Nicaraguans will seek refuge in Miami. The city has not experienced such an overwhelming influx since the Mariel boatlift deposited 125,000 Cuban refugees...
...Cuban missile crisis, which seemed done to death on its 25th anniversary less than two years ago, is skillfully re-created. The show combines interviews with participants (including, thanks to glasnost, an aide to Nikita Khrushchev and another official who was the Soviet ambassador to Cuba at the time) and excerpts from secretly recorded tapes of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink...
...Luanda last week Sergeant Vivian Hernandez Cabellero, a 19-year-old member of an antiaircraft battery, said goodbye to her companeros. She was part of the first contingent of Cuban soldiers to be withdrawn from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement to 13 years of fighting. In Kabul 500 Soviet soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R...
South Africa, for its part, is concerned that the Cubans may find a way to avoid living up to their end of the bargain. Despite a stipulation in the Brazzaville protocol that Cuba and Angola will reach an agreement on verification arrangements subject to U.N. Security Council approval, Botha has pushed strongly for guarantees that no Cuban troops will remain in Angola after the deadline. The Brazzaville agreement also did not address the continued presence in Angola of bases manned by anti-South African fighters of the African National Congress...