Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good news. Freshman Tiina Bougas won the singles championship, establishing her as the region's premier player...
...fact, Jimmy Carter may be the first U.S. President to have what can fairly be called a Caribbean policy. He expressed his interest in the region early by dispatching his wife Rosalynn, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and then U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young on official visits. In 1977 the National Security Council set up an interagency task force to review the area's problems. Two months ago Vance sent former Under Secretary of State Philip Habib on a ten-day tour of the area to re-examine U.S. policy. Among Habib's still secret recommendations: providing generous...
...might expect this--American reporters' access to the mainland has been extremely limited--it leaves a gaping hole. A Turning Wheel is subtitled "Three Decades of the Asian Revolution," but its author has omitted a discussion of the revolution that many believe has shaped the better part of the region's modern history...
...Although we have persuasive evidence that the unit has been a combat brigade, the Soviet statements about the future noncombat status of the unit are significant." He admitted that Moscow has been building up its military presence in Cuba, contributing to "tensions in the Caribbean and the Central American region" and adding to the "fears of some countries that they may come under Soviet or Cuban pressure." But he concluded that the issue is "certainly no reason for a return to the cold war ... The greatest danger to all the nations of the world is a breakdown of a common...
Carter's speech was the focal point of a two-day Western trip, his first visit to the region in five months...