Word: namo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since the early 1960s the Navy has occasionally landed as many as 1,800 Marines at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of muscle designed to protect the U.S. claim to its naval base there...
...flotilla that had begun setting off from Florlida two weeks ago to pick up refugees at the Cuban port of Mariel had more than tripled in size by last week. Declaring the exodus an "unprecedented emergency," President Carter called off a scheduled U.S. Navy exercise near Guantánamo Naval Base and ordered the diversion of 34 ships to help the U.S. Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there would be no one left in Cuba!" hooted one middle-aged arrival. Or almost...