Word: guantanamo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before the first rehearsal of this Marine Corps thriller set at Guantanamo Bay, its author had exceeded the daydreams of almost any debut playwright. Not only was the show on its way to Broadway with a 20-member cast headed by erstwhile Oscar nominee Tom Hulce (Amadeus), but it had been bought for the movies by producer David Brown, whose credits include Jaws, The Sting and The Verdict. He made a deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind...
Federal relief shipments laden with suppliesand rescue workers from Florida, South Carolina,West Virginia and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, went toPuerto Rico, while British and French forceshelped Montserrat and Guadeloupe...
...HARD TO enumerate the benefits resulting from U.S. possession of Guantanamo Bay. The more interesting stance to consider is that of the Cubans'. One would think that they hate our presence there, and are kicking up a continual fuss over it in international forums. In fact, however, they have done very little of this since the first years of Communist control...
...remaining in the barbed-wire-lined and mine-strewn perimeter, I saw a sign on the Cuban side. Through binoculars I could read it: Territorio Libertad de America. And one of the weekends I was there, we heard that a huge Cuban independence celebration was being held in nearby Guantanamo City. Castro himself was supposed to attend. It's not hard to imagine the type of speech he gave...
...propaganda value, the scapegoat for Cuba's ills, remains. Although less tangible than money or technological knowledge or industrial trade, a lightning rod like Guantanamo can prove invaluable to a young regime like Cuba...