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DIED. TAD SZULC, 74, foreign correspondent extraordinaire for the New York Times; of cancer; in Washington. Szulc broke the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and later wrote a biography of Fidel Castro. Born in Poland, Szulc came to the U.S. in 1947. He spoke six languages and reported from Asia, Latin America and Europe...
...First, Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959. In response to the takeover, the US imposed a trade embargo...
...Castro's revolution, Lee says, "I felt good about it, and I felt negative about the American government...
...clear, for example, that the Bush administration's appointee to head the State Department's Latin America desk, Otto Reich, is in trouble. Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras, and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee run by anyone other than Jesse Helms may question Reich's appropriateness for the challenges of today's Latin America...
...Fidel Castro...