Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...splendor in the Kremlin's Hall of St. George. Unlike his predecessor, who had engaged in reception-line diplomacy following Brezhnev's funeral, Chernenko shook hands stiffly, his face rarely creasing into the smile of the practiced politician. He did not appear to greet such Communist stalwarts as Cuban Leader Fidel Castro or Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski with any more enthusiasm than he greeted Vice President George Bush or British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...Salvador, the growing will of all nations of the continent toward independence and freedom. The United States wishes to oppose these changes by its "rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy unpalatable to it. This is a dangerous line. Indeed, is it the Cuban teachers schooling children in Nicaragua who are searching for concessions for Cuba or trying to pocket the wealth of that country? Did the valiant sons of Cuba give military support to independent Ethiopia and Angola at the request of their governments in order to deprive them of their freedom...
That attitude largely reflects desperation over the country's economy. Unemployment, which was 14% before the invasion, has ballooned to 33%. Business is at a standstill, awaiting completion of the Cuban-built airstrip (estimated cost: at least $70 million) that the U.S. saw as a strategic threat to the region. These days the two-mile runway mainly serves as a jogging track for the U.S. chargé d'affaires, Charles Gillespie. "If the U.S. doesn't do something quickly," says a local businessman, "the well of pro-American enthusiasm could...
...supply us with examples of Soviet ruthlessness and brutality. All the more reason, therefore, we should turn a fearful countenance to our own "Big Brother." Unfortunately, documented examples of CIA spying and murder are more often fed to the paper-shredder than to the media. The car-bombing of Cuban diplomat Orlando Letelier, however, is certainly attributable to the CIA during Bush's tenure. There are other examples, equally frightening, which space will not allow...
with whom he composed the sexy syncopations of New York ! You on Mariel. It pleases him still to call himself "a tropical gentleman." and there is a neat kind of hipster fitness to the description. Although he makes periodic pilgrimages to Miami for sunshine and real Cuban black beans, he has himself brought more than a measure of musical heat to his own chilly adopted city, and to a very cool scene. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Mary Ann French/New York