Word: roa
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DIED. Raúl Roa García, 75, Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, whose acerbic voice enunciated Fidel Castro's scathing views of U.S. policies toward his country; in Havana. A supporter of Fulgencio Batista until they had a falling-out, Roa was named by Castro after he ousted the dictator. Despite Roa's anti-Yanqui stance, he negotiated an agreement with the U.S. in 1965 that allowed an airlift of Cuban emigrants and another in 1973 providing for Cuban punishment of airplane hijackers...