Word: cubans
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...have lived in a bipolar international system with hegemonic powers competing for territory, goods and prestige. Judging by many theories about great powers and international conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union should have gone to war by now. They have had many opportunities--the closest being the Cuban Missile Crisis--where the two countries could have initiated a general war, but didn...
Twenty-five years after the Crisis, a large number of new writing and scholarly meetings have commemorated the world's closest brush with thermonuclear war. Even in 1988, the Cuban Missile Crisis held its own as a key factor in the debate over strategic issues and superpower relations--even to the point of coloring current arguments over the INF and START treaties. Politicians, scholars, and journalists have turned to the Crisis to draw out lessons about nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and crisis management. The publication of surprising evidence in this winter's International Security--a transcript of secret tapes which recorded...
...indictment details the involvement of Cuban President Fidel Castro, who allegedly mediated a dispute between Noriega and Columbia's Medellin Cartel after Panamanian troops raided a drug laboratory the general protected. But Castro is not charged in the indictment...
...tiny generation of politically aware students which first bit its activist teeth into the Cuban missile crisis and the bloody civil rights struggles in Mississippi and Birmingham became the sometime leaders and spokesmen of the vast and unruly coalition that marched on Washington, disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and flocked to Yasgar's farm and Haight-Ashbury...
...leader of S.D.S. and now a California state assemblyman, may sometimes have shared the radicals' feelings of cynicism and contempt for Bobby Kennedy, at least while Kennedy lived. But Hayden went to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and wept at Kennedy's casket, holding a Cuban fatigue cap in his hand. The year had many legacies, but the assassinations were among the most important and were the hardest to bear. They altered history and broke something essential in the national morale -- they broke hope. "The best leaders of our time were dead," Hayden says now. "They...