Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government, took his phone off the hook yesterday afternoon and left it there. But that didn't give him the peace he needed to finish proofreading an article for the Miami Herald on the recent thaw in Cuban-American relations; students flowed steadily into his Coolidge Hall office to discuss Dominguez's new springterm course on U.S.-Latin American relations...
...already on the scene, and central to the play, meet at the house of Geoffrey Carson (David Langton), a mine owner. Dick Wagner (John Thaw) is a gruff yet engaging Australian. He is soon scooped by Jacob Milne (Peter Machin), an idealistic cub reporter who has interviewed the inaccessible rebel leader...
...German Democratic Republic, Party Chief Erich Honecker seemed to be moving last spring toward a thaw in relations with the principal Protestant denominations, which claim 9.5 million followers among 17 million people, but almost nothing has come of it. The minority Catholic Church has no voice of consequence...
...that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after all, the Promised Land-a feeling that 132 other Cubans were allowed to share recently, when the Castro regime, in a small bid to thaw chilly relations with the U.S., gave them permission to emigrate...
This is an unfortunate reminder for Milos Forman. In 1968 he was still making movies in Prague; after seeing Hair in New York, he wanted to bring the musical to his home town. The 1968 Soviet invasion cooled that dream, and it did not thaw until Forman met Co-Producer Persky at a party (for Cuckoo's Nest) in Manhattan three years ago. "These people fought the good fight, and they shouldn't be ashamed of it," Forman says of his guests for the day. "We think the time to make the movie Hair...