Word: havana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of the party-state, the Marxist concept of a fused identity that still underpins governments in Beijing, Havana and Bucharest. The party will even examine ways of divesting itself of property acquired during the 40 years in which it and the state were virtually indistinguishable...
...Major General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez had reason to hope for clemency from his comrade of 30 years, Fidel Castro. It did not come. At dawn last Thursday, Ochoa, 57, and three other former army officers convicted only 16 days earlier of drug trafficking were executed by firing squad near Havana...
...fatigues and a bomber jacket, Cuban-born Pedro Rene Comas- Banos apparently slipped past American Airlines security in Los Angeles International Airport on Memorial Day weekend carrying a starter's pistol, two knives and a pair of scissors. Soon after, he forced a Miami-bound 727 to head for Havana. Pleading that the plane was running out of fuel, the pilot landed in Florida, where, after 90 minutes of negotiation with the FBI, the hijacker surrendered...
...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, say, by diplomatic means and not just by Cuban proxy. But as Castro boldly rejected the Moscow model of perestroika and glasnost, Gorbachev bit his tongue and signed...
...despite a show of friendship between thecharismatic leaders of the two communist allies, aseries of arrests in Havana yesterday underscoredthe differences between the pragmatic liberalismespoused by Gorbachev and the tight control stillexercised by Castro 30 years after he led aguerrilla army to victory over a right-wingdictatorship