Word: havana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those days are gone with perestroika. Like its trade with the former Comecon countries of Eastern Europe, Moscow's deals with Havana are now on a hard- currency basis at prevailing world prices. Under a 1991 agreement worth $3.8 billion, the Soviet Union is to deliver 70 million bbl. of oil to Cuba and, in exchange, receive 4 million tons of sugar, plus citrus fruit, nickel and medical supplies...
...present capabilities. Last year Moscow promised to deliver 100 million bbl. of oil but managed only 70 million. For 1991 the Soviets are to match the 70 million, but Cuban trade experts doubt it will happen. "We can no longer count on them," says a senior official in Havana...
...speech, so is everyone else who passes through Orlando. Yet in one sense, what is happening in central Florida is as old as the nation. Americans have always built new communities in the image of earlier ones -- from New Amsterdam to San Francisco's Chinatown to Miami's Little Havana. In another sense, the phenomenon of Orlando is something new. Orlando, the boomtown of the South, is growing at a staggering pace on the model of Disney World: it is a community that imitates an imitation of a community...
...Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what they demand, and still we're bad guys...
...Cruise (Born on the Fourth of July) receive a cut of ticket sales as opposed to a hefty up-front salary. "If we don't control costs, we won't have much of an industry left," warns Thomas Pollock, head of Universal, whose $40 million- plus Havana died on impact last year despite Redford's starring role. At 20th Century Fox, executives are trying to keep 1991 film budgets below the industry average of $27 million. "We haven't started telling people to walk to the airport," says Fox president Strauss Zelnick, "but we're trying to produce high-quality...