Word: oases
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The diplomatic and economic quarantine of Cuba by the Organization of American States has been tough to sustain-and equally tough to get off the books. Last year, before a meeting of OAS foreign ministers in Quito, it seemed like a good bet that delegates of pro-Cuba countries had...
Last week the 24 OAS members began a twelve-day meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica. This time the odds were even stronger that the embargo would end. Reason: Washington has become more positive, not toward Cuba directly but toward the freedom of Latin American nations to pursue their own...
Technically, the OAS ministers are meeting to amend the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the Treaty of Rio), under which the embargo was initially imposed. The aim was to drop the two-thirds majority provision on the lifting of sanctions and replace it with a simple majority vote...
Sport Exchange. Castro also said that 1) former President Nixon had "a personal hostility against Cuba," but that President Ford does not; 2) the CIA had organized and subsidized numerous assassination plots against him; 3) it would have been "absurd, irresponsible, crazy-and a very dangerous measure" for Cuba to...
At his own press conference in Havana the next day, McGovern, visibly worn from a post-midnight Castro-conducted tour of the city, proposed that one starting point for bettering relations might be an exchange of baseball and basketball teams between the two countries-a suggestion the Cuban Premier immediately...