Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and, finally, President Reagan. With the help of a high-powered public relations firm, he appeared on Public Television's MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour and ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America to plead his cause against Angola's Marxist regime and their Cuban and Soviet sponsors. At a national Conservative convention in Washington, he received a cheering, whistling ovation, and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick urged the U.S. to provide him with "real helicopters, real ground-to-air missiles, real weapons...
This may not seem to be the most stirring spiritual testimony on record--but consider the source. The words are those of Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose Communist regime has expelled bishops and priests, eliminated church schools, made it difficult for practicing Christians to get government jobs and even discouraged the observance of Christmas because it impeded the sugar- cane harvest. Pronouncements on faith, however, surface regularly in Fidel and Religion: Conversations with Friar Betto, just published in Cuba with Castro's own imprimatur. It is proving to be an instant hit: when the 379-page volume went on sale...
Fidel and Religion offers some rare glimpses into the Cuban leader's youth. He was raised in Oriente province, a region that had no resident priests, but his childhood home was full of religious objects. His mother was a "fervent Christian" who prayed daily and lit candles to the Virgin Mary and the saints. His father, a well-to-do farmer, had no time for religion. Castro was not baptized until he was five or six, but all his education until university was in Roman Catholic schools. "If someone were to ask, 'When did you have a religious conviction...
Indeed, only hours before, President Reagan had denounced the Sandinista regime in his weekly Saturday radio address. Nicaragua, he said, was "a nation condemned to unrelenting cruelty by a clique of very cruel men, by a dictator in designer glasses."* Reagan charged that "some 3,000 Cuban military personnel now lead and advise the Nicaraguan forces," a number that is confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports. Sandinista officials claim that Nicaragua has only 800 noncombatant Cuban advisers. Reagan also repeated earlier Administration allegations that the Sandinistas had armed the M-19 guerrillas who stormed Bogota's Palace of Justice last month...
...words between Washington and Managua has heated up since Dec. 2, when contras downed a Soviet-built Sandinista Mi-8 helicopter with a Soviet- made SA-7 surface-to-air missile. The U.S. charged that the chopper was piloted by a Cuban, and that the co-pilot was also a Cuban. It was the first time the contras had used such rockets in battle. Declared Secretary of State George Shultz: "Fine, I'm all for it. I hope they get more of these weapons." The incident marked a turning point of sorts for the Sandinistas. "Now that...