Cuban Chronology 1982

May 5
May 6
May 16
May 19
May 28
June 14
June 15
June 16
June 17-29
June 20
June 28
June 29
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Fidel Castro attends a reception in which Ramiro Valdes, Commander of the
Revolution, is awarded the Red Banner, one of the highest military orders awarded
by the Soviet Union.
TASS reports that the Soviet Union will provide Cuba with its first nuclear power
station; it will have two power blocks and a total output of 880 megawatts;
construction will begin soon. '
Fidel Castro, in a speech at the National Association of Small Farmers meeting in
Havana, rejects the suggestion by President Reagan that Cuba break its ties with
the USSR.
Union of Young Communists First Secretary Carlos Lage says Cuba will fight to
the last bullet and the last breath against imperialists aggression, during his speech
to the 19th Komsomol in Moscow.
Cuba and the USSR sign a cooperation protocol in television and radio broadcast-
ing for 1982-83.
The Soviet Red Cross announces in Moscow that it plans to provide medicines and
other medical supplies to Cuba to aid areas recently affected by floods.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses Soviet-Cuban relations and international issues
with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko at the UN.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez holds a press conference at the UN highlighting
Brezhnev’s message to the UN, that the USSR will refrain from being the first to
use nuclear arms.
A drive of solidarity with the Uruguayan People’s Struggle against Fascism takes
place throughout Cuba. Political and Mass Organizations as well as Uruguayans
residing in Cuba participate.
A House Republican Conference Committee member says the Soviet Union has
violated a 1962 agreement between President Kennedy and Soviet leader Khru-
shchev regarding Soviet weapons in Cuba.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the 12th session of the Intergovernmental
Committee for Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation meeting in
Moscow.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez exchanges views on Soviet-Cuban economic relations
with Nikolay Tikhonov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and a member of
the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. The World’s first woman
cosmonaut, Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, arrives in Cuba and is welcomed by
Vilma Espin. The construction and installations of an experimental plant of the
iron and steel works complex, built with Soviet cooperation, in Cajimaya, is
completed.
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