Word: morro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government does not, however, miss opportunities to promote a Marxist interpretation of the island's past. Signs describing Morro Castle, a 17th century fortress in Santiago Bay and now a pirate museum, link piracy with present-day imperialism, which, they claim, is more pervasive and insidious. In addition to the rhetoric, the government offers financial incentives, such as the promise of a new car, to encourage Cubans to participate in revolutions in Nicarauga and Africa...
...would like to return to no longer exists," observes one Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign-off. But more significantly, the Cuban exiles are becoming U.S. citizens at the rate of 1,000 per month. And of these, 80% are registering to vote...
California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his wife organized a round-the-clock vigil. But falconers, who want the birds for hunting, were also on the alert...
...harbor bill, he announced that he had "300,000 good reasons for signing it." Cuba's two ablest home-grown rulers were the tyrants who followed Zayas. When Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office, the dominant figure in Cuban political life until the advent of Fidel Castro...