Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa, Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is waging a classic war of attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...
...harshest exchange of all preceded the Shultz trip to Montevideo, when the Secretary of State appeared briefly before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York City took Shultz to task for mentioning a possible Cuban and Nicaraguan role in international drug trafficking. Then, in a classic case of overstatement, Weiss heatedly added that Shultz's remarks "remind me of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954." Shultz reddened and replied angrily, "When you compare me to Senator (Joseph) McCarthy, I resent it deeply." The Secretary refused to testify further until he received...
...Silenciada" of Cuba writes the after twenty-five years of socialist communist government, women are virtually absent from any positions of political power. Of the Cuban women she writes...
...favorites are on Columbia Road N.W. in the funky neighborhood of Adams-Morgan. The Omega serves sumptuous Cuban dishes like black beans and rice. The Cafe New Orleans serves hot and spicy Cajun specialties. Both are cheap, delicious and generous...
Rothchild spins a tale of the wild, wild South in which motives, loyalties and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency. The absurdist flavor of his account is best sampled through a procession of shady characters, including "the terrorist pediatrician," a Cuban exile accused of blowing up one of Castro's airliners and firing a bazooka at ships from the causeway linking Miami to Miami Beach...