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...WEEKS, FIDEL CASTRO'S AIDES had been urging him to relax. Engaged in a one-year campaign to improve relations with various nations around the world, including the U.S., Cuba's President, now 69 years old, had been working too hard and traveling too much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will...
...became apparent that Saturday, when his phone began ringing around 4 p.m. It was his chief of staff calling to tell him that 40 minutes earlier, three small, unarmed Cessna planes piloted by Cuban-American exiles from Miami, members of a group called Brothers to the Rescue, had penetrated Cuba's airspace with the apparent intention of dropping antigovernment leaflets over Havana. Castro's Air Defense Force had just blown two of the planes out of the sky, killing four...
...fully planned and purposefully carried out. Protocol in a situation in which a country feels that its sovereignty is being violated by incoming aircraft is to escort the aircraft out of its territorial zone, or, upon refusal, to make it land. However, the aerial attack was unannounced and outside Cuba's twelve mile territorial zone...
Recently, however, the Clinton administration has been affecting rapproachment with Cuba through various diplomatic channels. The cold-blooded, premeditated murder of four Cuban-American exiles flying over international waters, less than one year after the sinking of the 13th of July tugboat--which killed 41 men, women and children--should provide a clear imperative to President Clinton to deal more firmly with Castro...
MIAMI: Reports from Cuba indicate that the Helms-Burton Bill has already, affect investment in Cuba. In an exclusive interview with Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire...