Word: visits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rides are also educational in other ways. Some cyclists on last year's San Francisco ride rode 250 miles out of their way to visit a survival center funded by the 1987 trip. The $5000 donation helped found the center, which provides food, clothing and shelter to people in Harlan County...
...Doesn't it make sense to sit down and negotiate so that Cuban-Americans can go and visit their families? The U.S. is the only government that has not reached terms with Cuba," said Wayne Smith, the former head of the U.S. Mission in Havana...
Aruca said he is most concerned about theconditions among the large Miami community ofCuban-Americans. "Family needs have nothing to dowith ideology," said Aruca. "A good segment of thecommunity wants to visit relatives in Cuba. Thosewho oppose this usually don't have relativesthere...
Balroya said Castro did not wantCuban-Americans to visit Cuba because after aperiod of relaxed rules about visitation in the1970s, "human contact destroyed the myths that theMiami community hated the guts of their Cubanrelations...
...other ways as well, the world showed that it will not wait for Bush's Inauguration. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in Washington for valedictory visits to Reagan, took Bush aside to voice their concerns about the U.S. economy. (Thatcher, interestingly, spent as much time with Greenspan as with Bush.) Meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser...