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...just months after seizing power in Cuba, Fidel Castro traveled to Cambridge to speak at the Harvard Law School. More than 40 years later, an official for Castro’s regime recently began a semester-long stint as a visiting professor at another Harvard graduate school...
...Cuba: Castro offers exterminators...
...daily Granma noted that "Despite the fact that we hold different positions as to the most efficient way to eradicate terrorism, the difference between Cuba and the United States lies in the method and not in the need to put an end to that scourge." The statement says the Castro government is satisfied by assurances from Washington that the operation poses no threat to Cuba's security. Havana also offers cooperation in respect of any medical, sanitation and pest-control needs that may arise. Yes, pest-control...
...large crack in the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba will open this week as the first commercial shipments of U.S. food in 38 years are due to arrive in Havana. After Hurricane Michelle ravaged Cuba last month, compounding the island's steep drop in tourism revenues after Sept. 11, Castro refused relief aid from Washington, his archenemy. But the communist dictator did agree to pay $30 million in cash for grain, poultry and vegetable oil from U.S. companies like ADM and Cargill--something he had vowed earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last...
...food shipments will also give strength to the moderates in both Cuba and the U.S. who are seeking an end to the cold war standoff between the two nations. Castro's decision to buy the food--which aides insist is a one-time emergency move--will boost the growing influence of Cuba's economic liberalizers. And the fact that a U.S. commercial shipment is actually headed for Havana--a move hard-line Cuban-American leaders have bitterly fought--further erodes the embargo's flagging support...