Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person who may not be so enthusiastic about Mikhail Gorbachev's reforming impulse is Fidel Castro. While Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika earn admiration from both developed and developing countries, Cuba has yet to give its stamp of approval. For Castro, Cuba's leader for the past thirty years, "restructuring" may entail betrayal of the revolution, a return to what he has called "capitalist euphoria...
...apparent strain between Gorbachev and Castro is widely publicized in the United States as Gorbachev's appeal among even conservative U.S. policymakers broadens. The United States has gloatingly lauded the Soviet Union's recent elections, in which locally chosen politicians defeated many party officials, Many here see the Soviet "restructuring" as a challenge to open the Cuban dictatorship...
Both U.S. officials and a good portion of the Cuban citizenry expect to see the new Soviet influence spread in a country which considers itself the USSR's greatest ally and which receives five to six billion dollars in aid each year. But Castro has characterized the new friendliness between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the new Soviet policies, as "difficulties from the camp of our own friends...
...CASTRO'S hostility to detente may look like stubbornness, just another facet to the repressive character of his government. Cuba and other developing countries of the Western Hemisphere, however, have good reason to be wary of a potential U.S.-Soviet alliance...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...