Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fidel Castro's angriest performance since 1970, when Cuba's sugar harvest fell disastrously short of its goal. Addressing 1,800 delegates to the Cuban Communist Party's third congress, including representatives from 100 socialist countries, he vigorously and theatrically attacked rampant waste, mismanagement and indiscipline in Cuba's faltering economic system, still heavily dependent on Soviet subsidies. After two hours of a 5-hr. 40-min. marathon, Castro, 59, called an unusual half-hour recess. Precisely 30 minutes later, the Cuban dictator, who often wears two watches to be sure he is on time, strode onto the podium...
...found the hall in the modern Havana convention center half empty. As many of the Cuban delegates milled in the foyer, drinking coffee and chatting, a fuming Castro grabbed the microphone and snapped, "We were just talking about discipline, and now some of the comrades are not even in their seats yet." Stung by the rebuke from their leader, the delegates began streaming back in, but it was an additional five minutes before Castro could renew his denunciations of government inefficiency...
...began to change after UNITA, backed by CIA funding, lost a power struggle to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), a Marxist party that continues to run Angola with the help of some 30,000 Cuban troops and 1,500 Soviet military advisers. From his base in the southeastern third of the country, Savimbi turned from a Maoist into what he called "a New Testament socialist." Recently, he has portrayed himself in terms that U.S. conservatives find even more appealing. "The American people are again interested in helping those who are fighting for freedom," Savimbi told TIME...
...would jeopardize relations with black African nations and compromise the neutral American role in persuading South Africa to withdraw from Namibia, the former territory of South West Africa that borders Angola. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker has been pursuing a diplomatic solution that would consist of a Cuban withdrawal from Angola in return for a South African withdrawal from Namibia. Afterward, Savimbi could attempt to pressure the M.P.L.A. to hold the free elections that he says he wants...
...bolster the current Angolan regime. The M.P.L.A. government earns $2 billion a year in oil revenues from Chevron Corp. through Chevron's subsidiary Gulf Corp., which owns a 49% interest in Angola's Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Says one UNITA leader: "Gulf Oil has been subsidizing the Soviet and Cuban occupation of Angola." Although the U.S. has long supported and encouraged the American industrial presence in Angola, Crocker last week issued a warning to U.S. companies: "They are in the middle of a war zone. They should be thinking about U.S. national interests, as well as their own corporate interests...