Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OAKDALE, La.--Cuban prisoners in a federal detention center here yesterday rioted and took more than 20 hostages after they found out they might be sent back to Cuba. They demanded that they not be deported, authorities said...
...look forward to drawing on my personal experiences in covering major political and diplomatic events in Washington and Moscow, such as the resignation of President Nixon and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Daniloff said in a statement...
...stepping up attacks in the northern provinces. A sympathetic expatriate community in Miami still believes the contras could win the war if U.S. funding continues, a prospect that it admits is dim. "There will be a lot of bitter Nicaraguans in Miami," warns Jaime Suchlicki, the Cuban-born director of the University of Miami's Institute of Interamerican Studies. "Who would trust the U.S. after this...
...ethic of heroism . . . for good and all." In a nuclear showdown, he concludes, a leadership can justify itself only "by its detachment, moderation and power of analysis." Keegan thinks the U.S. got that leadership from John Kennedy during its only real nuclear confrontation, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. As for the next time...
...unilateral cease-fires in four remote war zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure so long as the Sandinistas fail to evict Cuban and Soviet advisers from Nicaraguan soil and refuse to negotiate a cease-fire directly with the contra leadership. Neither action is required under the terms of the accord...