Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weird, edgy stuff, raucous and paranoid by turns. On one side it descends from the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, whose images of cannibal nature-all claw, tooth and bone-were a significant, though now unfashionable, part of the impact surrealism made on New York in the 1940s. On the other it comes out of a native, down-home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food...
...most intractable problems: independence for Namibia, a vast, mineral-rich territory controlled by neighboring South Africa. President Reagan, he said, was prepared to use "his full influence" to promote a compromise that would involve the withdrawal of South Africa from Namibia in return for the removal of 30,000 Cuban troops from Marxist Angola...
...more immediate interest to diplomats was Eagleburger's suggestion that a compromise on Namibia was near. Ironically, it was the Reagan Administration that helped to stall talks on autonomy for the territory's 1 million inhabitants last year when it linked the proposed Cuban pullout from Angola to a South African withdrawal from Namibia. South Africa had not originally insisted on the Cuban withdrawal, but it subsequently fastened on the U.S. position as a delaying tactic. Last week Eagleburger fell back on the concept of "reciprocity" in the negotiations, a code word for a carefully timed agreement...
...reunions, it turned out to be disappointing. The expectant reporters had arrived to pick up tapes and transcripts of conversations secretly recorded at the White House by Kennedy in 1962 and 1963. They had hoped to gain new insights into J.F.K.'s handling of historic events like the Cuban missile crisis. At the least, they expected to get a more intimate glimpse of Kennedy's active social life. Instead, they were handed three volumes of transcripts from meetings on economic policies and one volume of discussions during the rioting at the University of Mississippi in October 1962, when...
...Soviet presence is more than matched by that of its surrogates. Some 11,000 Cuban troops, flown in initially in 1977 when neighboring Somalia invaded the disputed Ogaden region of Ethiopia, still guard the country's vulnerable eastern flank. East Germans are used to train Ethiopia's secret police. Several hundred more Soviet-bloc advisers are expected to be working in government departments and state-controlled industries by year's end. Says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Ethiopia represents Moscow's greatest success in Africa in more than a decade. It's a prize...