Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent epidemics of AIDS in the United States has prompted Cuban officials to attack the decadent West, while denying the demonstrated fact of the syndrome's presence in their own country. These lies have been refuted by Marti broadcasts that present evidence of AIDS in Cuba. But then Marti goes further, and much to far, in saying that military men brought AIDS to Cuba from Angola--and that Cubans who don't support the United States position on the conflict put their health at risk...
...with the U.S. Some State Department officials believe Reagan should take him up on it. They think that with Nicaragua under pressure to carry out the peace plan and get Washington to call off the contra war, the U.S. could strike a deal for reduction of Soviet aid and Cuban military advisers to Nicaragua, as well as other steps guaranteeing that Nicaragua will not become the Soviet-Cuban military base that Reagan fears...
...Lomonosov State University, will start an unprecedented joint course in the history of the nuclear arms race between the two nations. The program will include four satellite-relayed televised sessions, during which Soviet and American students will carry on live, transcontinental discussions of critical events such as the Cuban missile crisis. Says Tufts President Jean Mayer, who initiated the idea in a letter to Gorbachev last February: "The time was right...
...editor at the New York City publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the son of Critic Susan Sontag, is beguiled by old buildings that were inspired by fantasies of Moorish Spain and are now inhabited by cocaine cowboys from the Caribbean and South America. He forays among Cuban exiles and their U.S.-born children to talk to writers, artists, intellectuals and yuccas (young, up-and-coming Cuban Americans). He is impressed by their energy, ambition and sense of humor. Among the local jokes is this one about the marielitos, jailbirds and misfits that Fidel Castro unloaded...
Didion is drawn to explore the back channels of power. Her sources are mainly books, articles and public documents about the connections among anti- Castro Cuban refugees and anti-Communist activists in the U.S. Government. The ties -- clear, confusing and some crazy enough to be true -- are there, as the Iran-contra hearings disclosed. Veracity, rumor, deceit and braggadocio are hard to separate. "To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance" is Didion's evaluation of her experience. Translated from the Latinate, this means she could not make sense out of the town...