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Other Communist regimes began to totter when disaffected citizens filled foreign embassies demanding freedom to leave. Fidel Castro is determined to avoid that fate. Rather than permit 15 Cubans seeking asylum in the Spanish embassy in Havana to depart, he angrily renounced a $2.5 million economic cooperation program with Spain. And in a fiery three-hour speech marking the 37th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Castro accused the U.S. of instigating the wave of embassy break-ins that created the diplomatic standoff...
...trouble began on July 9, when three Cubans forced their way into the embassy building seeking safe-conduct to Spain. To prevent further asylum seekers from entering, Cuban police have blockaded the buildings and Castro has said none of the refugees will be given permission to leave...
Louisiana's good-guy Governor has his hands full with bills sent to him by his lunatic-asylum legislature. Among them: a draconian antiabortion measure appended to a gutted bill that encouraged beating up flag burners and a record-labeling bill that threatens the state's music industry...
Some diplomats felt that other elements in the government had welcomed and perhaps encouraged the asylum seekers' escape bid. "If Alia wants to break with the conservatives, this is his opportunity," said a Western diplomat. "It is tailor-made for a showdown...
...numbers continued to rise, Western concern began to grow too. A victory by the conservative faction could turn the trickle into a flood. At week's end the Albanian parliament agreed to let all the asylum seekers leave the country without fear of punishment. Whether that will stop the flow for good is another matter...