Word: castros
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Cuba. President Fidel Castro has been sending signals that Cuba also wants to talk with the U.S. Not only has the Administration said no, but last week it severely tightened credit restrictions on American businessmen and tourists traveling to Cuba. Some foreign policy experts fear that the Administration is missing an opportunity: Cuba is known to be in deep economic trouble, and Castro may be seriously looking for a way to lessen his country's total dependence on Soviet...
Haig last week told a gathering of business executives that Castro was "agonizing" over whether to stay in the Soviet orbit, which would seem to be a substantial overstatement. But Haig and his aides believe that the way to detach Castro from the Soviets, if there is one, is to tighten the American pressure that has isolated Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere. "Whenever we have sat down with Cuba in the past, it has cost us dearly," one ranking U.S. official argues. "The minute we agree to one small concession, they turn around and tell the world...
...analysis continued, the Soviets had successfully stirred up a new whirlpool of undemocratic instability, slowly but steadily pulling neighboring countries into an ever-growing chasm. Once Reagan saw Nicaragua as a member of the global communist monolith. U.S. policy became little more than our attempt to prevent Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev from getting the maniacal last laugh...
...Havana's efforts to export its revolution, with the help of its Nicaraguan ally, is a prime cause of the four-year-old Salvadoran civil war. In early March, Secretary of State Alexander Haig secretly dispatched his favorite troubleshooter, General Vernon Walters, to Havana to press this point. Castro reportedly told Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA, that while Cuba supports the Salvadoran leftists, it is not currently supplying them with arms. Castro expressed his readiness to address these and other issues in direct negotiations with...
...Janice Castro. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/'Washington