Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accused drug dealer and alleged black-magic practitioner. Only Cuba showed even a grudging interest in enabling Noriega to leave the Vatican embassy in Panama City, where he had taken refuge from invading U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. "We wouldn't do it for Noriega the man," said a Cuban diplomat. "This would be our way of standing up for nonintervention and, frankly, sticking it to the gringos." Officials in Washington, however, swore they would not consent to a transfer of Noriega unless he went much farther away than Cuba, to a country where he would have no chance...
...will be preaching about the inn where Joseph and Mary were turned away. Can you refuse me? Laboa decided he could not. Shortly after, a nunciature vehicle picked up Noriega at the Dairy Queen. And why had American troops not surrounded the papal embassy as they had the Cuban and Nicaraguan embassies, where it was suspected Noriega might seek asylum? The State Department answered, in effect, that they had simply never thought of doing...
That episode illustrated Noriega's crucial role in the continuing resistance. American commanders have made capturing him a high priority, since as long as he remains at large, some Panamanian units might rally around him. Yet the wily dictator managed to evade the net. American troops surrounded the Cuban and Nicaraguan embassies in Panama City to prevent Noriega from seeking refuge. Six hours after the invasion began, U.S. soldiers burst into the "Witch House," a Noriega residence on the Pacific coastline. Inside, they found cigarettes still smoldering in ashtrays, suggesting that the strongman might have slipped away only moments before...
...trying to reinvent communism, but during his formative years in obscurity he certainly learned a lesson about the connection between internal reform and international relations. He had seen Nikita Khrushchev's vigorous cultural thaw of the late 1950s freeze again in the intensified cold war that followed the Cuban missile crisis. Alexei Kosygin, who was Prime Minister until his death in 1980, attempted to reorient heavy industry toward consumer goods, decentralization and profitmaking in the mid-1960s. But, ironically, that program was aborted partly because the Soviet crackdown on "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia triggered a backlash against...