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Castro, Fidel

1926- 2016

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Kudryavtsev, Sergey Mikhailovich

1915- 1998

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Alekseyev, Alexander Ivanovich

1913- 1989

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Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich

1894- 1971

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1895- 1978

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January 26, 1975	Letter from Neto to Cuban leadership, Dar-es-Salaam Letter from Neto to Cuban leadership requesting help in setting up schools and providing military training, weapons and expertise
January 29, 1976	Letter, Jorge Risquet to Fidel Castro, Luanda Risquet to Fidel Castro, Luanda on his meeting with Neto regarding weapons delivered by the Soviet Union to Angola to help arm Cubans coming to fight for Angola
April 3, 1977	Fidel Castro's 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker (excerpt) The following excerpt--from a discussion on 3 April 1977 at the House of the SED Central Committee in East Berlin--contains Castro's impressions of the situations in several southern African countries, (e.g., Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, People's Republic of the Congo), and several guerrilla or liberation groups in the region, such as the African National Congress (ANC), then struggling for power in South Africa, and two groups fighting to rule Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Political Union (ZAPU). Also included are Castro's assessments of individual political leaders, remarks about coordination with Moscow, and an over-all conclusion that Africa was the place to inflict a major blow against world imperialism.
April 3, 1977	Transcript of Meeting between East German leader Erich Honecker and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, East Berlin (excerpts) Transcript of a meeting between East German leader Erich Honecker and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, East Berlin (excerpts) regarding Castro’s visit to Somalia and Ethiopia, criticizing Siad Barre and discussing the need to help the revolution in Ethiopia
October 28, 1962	Cable from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to USSR Ambassador to Cuba Alekseev Gromyko asks Alekseev to relay a message to Castro regarding U Thant’s possible visit.
January 21, 1988	Memorandum of Conversation between the International Olympic Committee President and Eduard Shevardnadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the USSR, regarding the negotiations with North Korea on the 1988 Olympics Memorandum of a discussion between IOC President Samaranch and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shevardnadze. The two discuss other issues for a while before turning to the "Korea question," as Shevardnadze puts it. Samaranch explains the series of discussions and compromises that have already occurred, as well as expresses some doubt that North Korea is serious about making cooperation happen and that he'd need assurance about the "Olympic family" being able to cross the border. Shevardnadze expresses confidence that that wouldn't be a problem.
February 16, 1988	Letter from the International Olympic Committee President to Fidel Castro regarding North Korea’s Participation in the 1988 Olympics Letter from the International Olympic Committee President to Castro in response to Cuba's decision not to attend the 1988 Seoul Olympics.