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* October 31 – Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, U. S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society.
* July 9: Battle of Alpens ( Third Carlist War )- Campaigning in Catalonia, a Government column under General José Cabrinety was ambushed at Alpens, 15 miles east of Berga, by Carlist forces under General Francisco Savalls.
* January 3 – Battle of Caspe ( Third Carlist War ): Campaigning on the Ebro in Aragon for the Spanish Republican Government, Colonel Eulogio Despujol surprised a Carlist force under Manuel Marco de Bello at Caspe, northeast of Alcañiz.
Campaigning under the slogans Il faut que ça change ( Things have to change ) and Maîtres chez nous ( Masters of our own house ), a phrase coined by Le Devoir editor Andre Laurendeau, the Liberal Party, with Jean Lesage at its head, was elected within a year of Duplessis's death.
Campaigning at subway stations is a staple of New York elections akin to candidate appearances at small town diners during presidential campaigns in the rest of the country.
Campaigning on a " save Taiwan from corruption " platform, the KMT-led pan-blue coalition won 16 of 23 county and town offices and became the majority party at the local level.
* Pandia, Ralli ( Feb. 1899 ) " Campaigning in the Philippines, Part 1 ", Overland Monthly, page images at Making of America, University of Michigan
Campaigning in Flanders 1692-1695 followed, with action at Steenkirk 1693 and the storming of Namur 1695 which was the 6th's first battle honour.
Campaigning on a platform of strengthening anti-corruption laws, establishing programs to eradicate poverty, and reinforcing the family unit, it took 19 percent of the indigneous Fijian vote, mostly at the expense of the SVT, which lost the election.
During his time at the Department of the Environment he worked closely with Michael Howard who, when subsequently Leader of the Conservative Party, appointed Moynihan as his Special Adviser and Chairman of the Conservative Campaigning Board.
The Southern Daily Echo was named Newspaper of the Year 2009 and 2011, and Campaigning Newspaper of the Year 2011 at the annual EDF Energy South East and London Media Awards.

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He also appears every Saturday night on the network's flagship show, Campaña Por TV ( Campaigning Through TV ), where he preaches selected verses of the New Testament, presents Christian music groups, and invites viewers to convert to Christianity.
( S. Menzel, Dictators, Drugs and Revolution: Cold War Campaigning in Latin America, 1965-89 ( New York: Author House, 2006 ), 141-43 ).
In 1973, he published both Goodbye London ( written with John Betjeman's daughter Candida Lycett Green ), and, with Bennie Gray, was the IPC Campaigning Journalist of the Year.

Cuba and at
but I liked to think of him at ninety swimming and working at Key West long after Hemingway had moved to Cuba.
Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.
* 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
* 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.
Schedules, prices and ticket booking can be done on line, at any of the major international airports or National Terminals across Cuba.
Cuba consistently supported Iraq at the United Nations against sanctions and threats made by the United States.
# The participation of the Republic of Cuba in the OAS will be the result of a process of dialogue initiated at the request of the Government of Cuba, and in accordance with the practices, purposes, and principles of the OAS.
Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.
With evidence in hand from both the Corona satellite and Navy Reconnaissance aircraft, at the beginning of October the administration decided it was now worth risking U-2 flights over Cuba.
The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.
As part of the blockade, the US military was put on high alert to enforce the blockade and to be ready to invade Cuba at a moment's notice.
President Kennedy signs the Proclamation for Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba at the Oval Office on October 23, 1962.
In Cuba, if a computer user at a government controlled Internet cafe types certain words, the word processor or browser is automatically closed, and a " state security " warning is given.
It happened during the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Americans in large numbers arrived in Cuba.
According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".
Professional dancers at the Tropicana Club, Havana, Cuba, in 2008
In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
In November, at a joint hearing of Congressional Subcommittee, it was told that Grenada could be used as a staging area for subversion of the nearby countries, for intersection of shipping lanes, and for the transit of troops and supplies from Cuba to Africa, and from Eastern Europe and Libya to Central America.
United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( also called Gitmo or GTMO ) is located on of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba which the United States leased for use as a coaling ( fueling ) station following the Cuban-American Treaty of 1903.
The base is located on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba.

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In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.
Their visits are commemorated in the Viva Cuba Mural Project.
Cuba was designated as the Route 66 Mural City by the Missouri legislature in recognition of Viva Cuba's Outdoor Mural Project.
* Cuba Mural Project The Viva Cuba Organization's official website for Cuba's public art and beautification
In response to a request for pretexts for military intervention by the Chief of Operations of the Cuba Project, Brig.
* The Cuatro Project: The Tres in Puerto Rico and Cuba.
The purpose of the Varela Project was to circulate a proposal of law advocating for democratic political reforms within Cuba, such as the establishment of freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free elections, freedom of religion, freedom to start private businesses, and amnesty for political prisoners.
Also, some of the Varela Project leaders were accused by the Cuban government of accepting foreign political support from James Cason of the United States State Department for political purposes, which is against the law in Cuba and many other countries, including the United States.
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Felipe Pérez Roque stated on April 9, 2003, that " The Varela Project is part of a strategy of subversion against Cuba that has been conceived, financed, and directed from abroad with the active participation of the U. S. Interests Section in Havana.
Cuba maintains that the head of the US Special Interests section in Havana, James Cason has given money, gifts and support to dissidents in Cuba, associated with the Varela Project, and that: " For these reasons, a few dozen persons directly linked to the conspiratorial activities headed by James Cason have been arrested by the relevant authorities and will be brought to trial.
In March 2003, Cuba arrested 75 human rights activists, including 25 members of the Varela Project, on a variety of charges ; all were sentenced to prison in trials within twenty days of their arrest.
The Varela Project was lauded by some outside observers such as former US President Jimmy Carter, in a May 2002 speech in Havana, Cuba, and the European Union, which awarded Payá the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
* The Sound of Change: Hip Hop in Cuba Radio documentary by the National Radio Project.
The Cuban National Assembly Constitution and Legal Affairs Committee tabled the Varela Project citizens ' initiative and responded with a counter initiative, the petition for which collected 8. 1 million signatures, to request that Cuba's National Assembly amend the constitution to state " Socialism and the revolutionary political and social system ... are irrevocable ; and Cuba will never again return to capitalism.
William M. LeoGrande, in a paper written for the Cuba Transition Project at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, wrote of the 1992 election law: " unprecedented openness in debate, not just among party members, but also among the entire populace, so as to foster greater participation and build ' the necessary consensus ' for the government's policy response ... Eventually, some three million people participated in the pre-Congress discussions ", but " When the new electoral law was finalized … it dashed any hopes for a significant opening to alternative voices.
* Varela Project, movement for political change in Cuba
The Cuban Project, as with the earlier Bay of Pigs invasion, is widely acknowledged as an American policy failure against Cuba.
* Operation Mongoose: The Cuba Project, Cuban History Archive, 20 Feb 1962.
These provide additional proof of Posada's involvement in violent efforts to undermine Castro's socialist government, said Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project.
* The Cuban Project ( 1961 – 1962 )-US President John F. Kennedy initiated a CIA operation on November 30, 1961 to " help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime " aiming " for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962.

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