Slogans Fill Cuban Life From Billboards To Shirts
Slogans saturate Fidel Castro era Cuba from highways to classrooms and T-shirts. Posters urge production and vigilance while anti US themes persist only lightly. A billboard near the U S embassy memorializes Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the regime’s fear of invasion echoes in several signs.
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Associated Press
Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Communist Party
Jose Marti
U.S
Uncle Sam
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Soviet Union
United States
Mont St. Michel Lifesaving Project Inaugurated By Mitterrand
President Francois Mitterrand opened a government program to rescue Mont St. Michel from encroaching sands. The plan, costing about 8.8 million dollars, removes bay dikes to allow tides and rivers to flush sediment, restoring higher tides and preserving a famed abbey and tourist site near Normandy.
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Mont ST. Michel
France
Francois Mitterrand
Normandy
Papal mediation stalls in Argentina Chile Beagle dispute
Four years after Pope John Paul II intervened to avert war, Vatican talks on Beagle Channel sovereignty remain deadlocked. Dispute centers on 10 barren islands and potential oil. no progress visible amid news blackout and leadership changes. Negotiations since 1980 have yielded little beyond a Vatican mediation framework and two Rome embassies.
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Associated Press
Vatican City
John Paul II
Argentina
Chile
South America
Beagle Channel
Vatican
Leo XIII
Caroline Islands
Pacific
Rome
John Paul
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Atlantic
Cape Horn
Antarctica
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Victor Hugo
Henri Arnold
Bob Lee
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Hawat
Telled
Prulab
Juan Carlos Gumacio
Tierra del Fuego
Frontier Furniture
King Roil
Nse
Sail
Satis
North Grant
West Texas
Crete
Andrews Hwy
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