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...Bush Administration may be forgiven for reacting slowly to the phantasmagoria of 1989. No one saw the collapse of communism coming, and no one could be sure that it would continue, much less spread. The next stage, however, is more predictable: sooner or later what started in the Soviet Union will engulf Moscow's clones in the Third World. This time there will be no excuse for the U.S. to be caught flat-footed...
...same token, Bush could send ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kabul, Luanda, Havana and Hanoi to engage the leaders there constructively rather than treating them like avatars of Moscowcentric world communism, a phenomenon that no longer exists. For the U.S. to stop & withholding or hedging recognition of those regimes would be a big step toward recognizing how much the world is changing...
...cast on the island by the outside world. Yet the government of Fidel Castro, 63, seems as convinced as ever it is the rest of the planet that is out of step. While a hurricane of change sweeps across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, toppling leaders and shredding communism, Cuba stands like a lonely lighthouse of ideology, battered but unyielding. "We must dig in with the ideas of Marxist Leninism more than ever," Castro has declared. "Long live rigidity!" Signs along the country's roads exhort, SOCIALISM OR DEATH...
...dark. Uva Clavijo, a Miami-based fiction writer who came to the U.S. in 1959 at the age of 15, has decided she will return to Cuba if Castro falls, and she believes it will be soon. "History has accelerated, and he can't go against history," she says. "Communism is crumbling. Why should Cuba be different?" While Clavijo's speculation may be premature, her question is increasingly one worth pondering...
...Communism didn't solve problems, it created new ones," Randell said. He observed that the fear in Eastern Europe seems "primarily economic" rather than political, and that people "are scared that if western capitalism comes in, it'll take over...