Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of immediate material incentives by simply goofing off: waitresses shuffle their feet while customers wait, and bus drivers omit stops. Despite the fact that some continue to exploit the system, Cubans are proud that they have "reclaimed their country" from the American interests that have dominated the region since 1898. Today Havana is a Cuban city. Havana in the fifties was an American sailor's brothel; a friend who was in the marines at that time told me that he and his friends considered Havana "one long chain of wild nights." Lest Cubans forget, a reminder is kept...
...Latin America, Cuba was for a long time perceived as an exporter of revolution; but suspicions have lessened with the cooling of Castro's interventionist activities in the region and the broadening of economic ties. Many regimes in the Caribbean area - including the governments of Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana and Nicaragua - look to Cuba as both a societal role model and a source of aid. To Castro himself, Cuba is a progressive, socialist and "Latin African" nation whose revolutionary achievements give it a right to act as a spokesman for the Third World...
PENSACOLA, FLA.--Authorities ordered nearly 400,000 people to leave the central Gulf Coast region, an area threatened last night by 140-mile-an-hour winds and 15-footrides of hurricane Frederic...
...rate of 12,000 a month. So far, the U.S. has taken in some 50,000 boat people and other refugees from the current upheaval, the highest total by far of any Western host country. New arrivals, who tend to cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with reliable sponsors who will help them adjust to their new life. The U.S. gives the voluntary agencies...
...similar icy moon. One surprise: there was far more debris in the wide gap between Saturn's outermost rings than could be seen from earth, but no trace of a fifth ring beyond the four known ones. At week's end the probe swept through this outer region, coming within 21,000 km (13,000 miles) of Saturn's cloud tops in the first rendezvous with that distant planet...