Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disparate as a pair could be. The business-suited pragmatist and the fatigue-clad revolutionary. Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. New thinking and old orthodoxy. Castro talked the most, but Gorbachev had the last word. He coolly rejected Castro's policy of exporting revolution, a central tenet of the Cuban leader's 30-year rule. Until a very few years ago, Moscow's leaders too preached worldwide support for wars of national liberation. But Gorbachev's words in Havana seemed intended to reinforce his professed determination to replace such vaporous ideology with solidly grounded pragmatism -- obtaining influence in Latin America...
HAVANA--Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the Cuban legislature yesterday that Soviet-style reforms were not a universal remedy for all communist countries...
...minute speech before the Cuban National Assembly, Gorbachev also proposed that a "zone of peace" be established in Latin America and the Caribbean and renounced any Soviet intention of establishing naval, air or missile bases in the region...
Earlier, in an interview with the Soviet news agency Tass, Gorbachev signaled that he and Cuban President Fidel Castro are prepared to work for improved East-West relations, indicating some softening in the Cuban leader's anti-Americanism...
Castro and Gorbachev signed a 25-year bilateralaccord, which the Cuban news agency Prensa Latinasaid dashes all speculation about a rift betweenHavana and Moscow and ratifies their "traditionalrelations...