Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prospects for peace in southern Africa cleared a major hurdle last week as South Africa announced that it had finally agreed in principle to a timetable for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. The Cubans will first move north, then sail for home over the next 27 months. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha described the long-standing issue as "a hard nut, which had to be cracked and now has been cracked...
Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil to Nielsen's hapless bumbling...
...Doesn't it make sense to sit down and negotiate so that Cuban-Americans can go and visit their families? The U.S. is the only government that has not reached terms with Cuba," said Wayne Smith, the former head of the U.S. Mission in Havana...
Enrique Balroya, associate dean of the University of Miami's School of International Studies, said that if Cuban leader Fidel Castro had cared about the country's welfare, he would have already attempted to repair relations with...
...Aruca said, Castro lowered theexorbitant tourist prices originally intended todiscourage Cuban-American visitors, but has sincelimited the number of visitors allowed from theU.S...