Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Setting out to restore the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S., Macmillan liked to remind everyone that his mother was an American. He established a close rapport with President Eisenhower and later with President John F. Kennedy, who called him frequently during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. "I was a sort of son to Ike," Macmillan explained, "and it was the other way round with Kennedy...
...COKE Keith Reddin, who was four years old during the Bay of Pigs invasion, sensitively evoked its tragicomic excesses and catastrophic outcome for Cuban exiles and American scions of privilege and for the Government they both served...
AGAINST ALL HOPE: THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF ARMANDO VALLADARES A Cuban poet who spent 22 years as Castro's political prisoner tells of atrocity, survival and hope...
...interview he elaborated on the President's joke and attributed it to "one guy at the White House." Said Buchanan: "Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese are the Woodward and Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...
...estimated 3000 predominantly Republican Cuban-American and Nicaraguan exiles attended the rally sponsored by Concerned Citizens for Democracy...