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...Jesse Jackson b) Fidel Castro c) Pat Robertson d) Warren Christopher...
...boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk and trips to Disney World. To the relatives and their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came to that: a predawn raid that produced dueling images...
...Fidel Castro is worried that the man in the photo...
...closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the Electoral College to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, even suggested last week that a new election in Florida would be a good idea. Maybe they could send election monitors from Cuba to ensure the fairness of the vote count. It would all be funny if the laughs didn't come so hard...
...Fidel Castro, naturally, lost no time in going nyah-nyah, and blaming the situation on the "Cuban-American terrorist mafia." The official daily Granma charged that Cuban exiles had committed widespread electoral fraud, and demanded new elections in Florida to prove that it was a democracy rather than "a banana republic." (The Cuban leader may, of course, want to be a bit more prudent about demanding free and fair elections lest his people start getting ideas...