Soviet winds of change reach Caribbean and Castro isolation
Washington reports Moscow's leadership shakeup may reach Cuba as Ligachev falls, Medvedev seeks U.S. collaboration, and Soviet aid to Havana declines. Analysts warn Castro faces vulnerability amid glasnost debates, while Cuba retains strategic Soviet assets. U.S. officials foresee leverage to shape Cuban events.
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Caribbean
Washington
Soviet Union
Volga
Danube
Fidel Castro
Kremlinn
Yegor K. Ligachev
Vadim A. Medvedev
United States
Cuba
Third World
Soviet Bloc
U.S
Castro
West
Albania
Gorbachev
Moscow
Havana
Israel
State Department
Soviet arms to Nicaragua slow under pressure for talks
Washington reports that the Soviet Union is reducing military shipments to Nicaragua while the United States scales back Contras aid.Administration officials see possible moves toward a superpower agreement on Nicaragua as Shultz and Shevardnadze have held informal talks. Kremlin leadership changes may quicken discussions, though no formal accord exists.
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Soviet Union
Nicaragua
United States
White House
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Kremlin
Americans share Nobel for medicine 1988 prize
Sir James W Black of Great Britain and Americans Gertrude Elion and George H Hitchings won the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that led to new drugs. Black developed propanolol used in heart disease. Elion and Hitchings’ work spurred cancer treatments and drugs for leukemia malaria and organ transplant rejection.
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Stockholm
Sweden
James W. Black
Great Britain
Gertrude Elton
George H. Hitchings
Nobel Assembly
Karolinska Institute
Black
Elion
Hitchings
Yanks and Koreans clash in Seoul nightclub district
About 40 U S soldiers brandished knives and bottles and fought rock throwers in Itaewon, Seoul. One American and three Koreans injured, with conditions varying from hospitalisation to critical. The clash began after a taxi driver quarrel and escalated into a large melee near Haewon shopping area.
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South Korea
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Itaewon
Haewon
U.S. Forces Korea
Lee Ok-Chal
Lee
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