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cubans

n. (plural of Cuban English)

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Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Cubans do not treat their nationality as an ethnicity but as a citizenship with various ethnicities and national origins comprising the "Cuban people."

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January 3 he told Lemnitzer and other aides in his Cabinet Room that he would move against Castro before the inauguration if only the Cubans gave him a really good excuse.

Fortunately for NSA, the Cubans never tried to scramble voice communications.

The Cubans had just begun passing radar tracking from radar stations to higher headquarters and to defensive fighter bases using Soviet procedures.

Friday, October 26, the results of low-level photography indicated that the Russians and Cubans were rapidly attempting to complete the four medium-range-missile site.

That, however, required forcing the Cubans to fire off one more of their missiles.

If the Cubans were shooting at our planes, then we were going to shoot back.

Each time a SAM site was turned over to the Cubans, various signals changed.

The Cubans were brought to Miami, while most of the Haitians were returned to Port-au-Prince.

Like Cubans, Haitians are victims of generations of political oppression.

Just like the Cubans, the Haitians fled an economic nightmare caused by repression, corruption and a harsh U.

Like the Cubans, the Haitians were so desperate that they set out for Florida in flimsy, overcrowded crafts.

Stopping refugees at sea is a heartbreaking affair, but the alternative is to throw open the doors to every hungry soul in the Caribbeannot just Cubans and Haitians, but everybody.

For a long time the United States had used a double standard for Caribbean refugees, routinely turning away Haitian boat people while accepting most Cubans without question.

These did little good, however, because the Cubans possessed technology that would neutralize most of them.

Lately some of these casualties had been found to be wearing red berets and scorpion-shaped brass pins, and from this it was known that the Cubans had sent in the Alacran Division, which had been instrumental in routing the American Forces in Miskitia.