Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandals amid charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon...
THAWING RELATIONS WITH CUBA...
President Clinton should be commended for his ethical and principled decision to admit the Cuban refugees at Guantanamo to the U.S. [CUBA, May 15]. He has taken some flak from that small minority of ultra-conservative Cuban Americans who would have been happy to let their Cuban brothers and sisters rot at Guantanamo, but instead of caving in to their pressure, Clinton took the moral high ground. Cuban Americans will think highly of him for allowing the rrunification of Cuban families. RAYMUNDO DEL TORO, PRESIDENT Cuban American Commmittee for Peace Linden, New Jersey
...Pico Iyer's Cuba and the Night [BOOKS, May 8] the novel he was writing when he lost all his notes during the California fires? I remember readaing his commentary [July, 1990] and feeling very sorry for him. I hope this is his novel that truly "arose from the ashes...
...notes TIME contributor Iyer lost when his home in Santa Barbara was consumed by fire in 1990 were for a planned nonfiction volume on Cuba, which would have been his fourth book. Thus bereft, Iyer turned to his imaginatioin and recast the work as a first novel. In that sense, he says, "it really is the book that rose from the ashes...