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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the U.S. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Troubled Waters | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Washington is troubled by the new atmosphere in the area. In recent months there have been fears that the Caribbean has become an arena for superpower rivalry, with Havana, as usual, acting as Moscow's surrogate. Says a U.S. official: "There is a great concern that America and its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Troubled Waters | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

In most cases, the new Caribbean nations depend on their former colonial masters to buy their largely agricultural products. Trapped between their dependence on the one hand and their need to assert their independence on the other, many have adopted an anti-Western stance. Even though Cuba survives only by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Troubled Waters | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Money alone will not turn the Caribbean into paradise. After all, Puerto Rico gets more than $1 billion in federal aid, but unemployment hovers at 18% and the living standard is well below that of the mainland U.S. Still, there is a growing recognition by the Administration that "poverty is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Troubled Waters | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

If any aircraft can determine the combat capability of the Soviet brigade on the island, it is the SR-71-the fastest, highest-flying and most elusive manned aircraft in existence. So fast does the sophisticated spy plane move that when a pilot starts a 180° turn over Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Blackbirds over Cuba | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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