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...chosen to challenge U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean by picking "targets of opportunity"-places where a minimum of aid can yield high propaganda dividends without directly confronting U.S. might. In Nicaragua, Castro did little more than supply arms and some training for the Sandinistas, who also received assistance from Latin America's remaining handful of democracies. Instead of attempting to foment revolutions, the Cuban leader has launched an aggressive campaign of diplomacy and aid that speaks to the social ills plaguing the Caribbean. Says a British Caribbean specialist: "The Cubans did not create these conditions. They were opportunities which...
...Cuba survives only by massive infusions of Soviet aid (an estimated $2.5 billion a year), Castro's nose-thumbing attitude toward the U.S. and his admitted achievements-notably the elimination of illiteracy-provide an alluring model for Cuba's neighbors. Says Abraham Lowenthal, a U.S. authority on Latin America: "These countries are satellites in search of an orbit. They may become part of the Cuban orbit, but not for military reasons. If the Cubans succeed, it will be because Cuba is able to convey a greater sense of social and economic integration, a greater sense of nation-building...
...have no interest in participating in a forum of that sort," huffed Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government. And that was that. But Gregory Nagy, professor of Greek and Latin, his wife giggling in the background, spluttered, "I don't read in the bathroom. I have so many things to say...This one short-circuits me completely," he gurgled, collapsing in a fit of hysterical laughter...
...freshman year at Cambridge Latin High School, Darlene Beckford was afraid to go out for cross country because no one on the team knew...
Most Panamanians, however, were in a rejoicing mood. More than 150,000 of them (out of a population of 1.9 million) showed up at the Albrook rally, which was attended by Vice President Walter Mondale and the leaders of many Latin American governments. They shrieked in joy as Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, fresh from his summit with Jimmy Carter, praised "the disappearance of the humiliating injustice of the enclave that has long divided" Central America. Notably absent from the ceremonies was Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera, who had negotiated the pact with the U.S. He apparently did not wish...