Word: yanqui
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...subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise, he approved it. "We'll do this," he said, "as a humanitarian gesture for American children...
...about 150 police officers--three times the usual contingent--surrounded the place. A salsa band heated up the bricks behind left field, and the usual ballpark air of stale beer and popcorn gave way to the exotic aromas of rum-and-mint mojitos and fine Havana cigars, which Yanqui yuppies puffed in violation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. In the parking lot, protesters shrieked, "Beisbol, si! Cuba...
...Haitian figure can come close to matching; the U.S. can hardly pretend to be restoring Haitian democracy if it backs anyone else. If he is a leftist and no admirer of the U.S. -- well, in a perverse way, that makes American intervention easier to defend against possible cries of Yanqui imperialism. Instead of overthrowing a populist reformer to install a military dictatorship friendly to the U.S., Washington will be doing the exact opposite...
Does this make sense anymore? Except for flooding Florida with boat people, Cuba poses no threat to U.S. national security. It no longer has a nuclear- armed patron in Moscow buying anti-Yanqui mischief with $6 in billion annual aid. The whole world has passed by Fidel's moth-eaten socialism...
...only a short while ago that the U.S. was cooing over Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's overture for the agreement. Mexico had been better known for experiments with import-substitution and "Yanqui Go Home!" than for a belief in comparative advantage and free trade. The idea that American ideals were finally winning adherents south of the border was gratifying and flattering...