Word: cuban-american
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...long ago, all a Republican presidential candidate had to do was point out that his opponent was soft on Fidel Castro to maintain the G.O.P.'s lock on Florida's powerful Cuban-American community. But Bob Dole has nothing on Bill Clinton. The President has been courting that community, and to them he is now a hard-liner after their own hearts. A Miami poll has found that 41% of Florida's Cuban Americans plan to vote for Clinton, almost double what he won in 1992, finally giving him a chance to take the state he lost by a squeaker...
...Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association; Institute of Politics; Harvard Crimson; Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Col Prep (PBH Program...
...nation while violating its airspace and inciting people to rebel against a government on repeated occasions are harsh provocations. Any self-respecting country would be expected to respond to this kind of repeated attack. Castro's reaction was fair. He tolerated the insult more than a dozen times. The Cuban-American activists got the treatment they asked for. ENRIQUE FARIAS Mexico City...
...discourage grandstanding on their part. As it happened, the risk of another incident was minimal, since bad weather forced the Brothers' boats and planes to head back to Florida before they got close to Cuba. The damage has been done, however, and it seems nothing can stop Cuban-American relations from sliding back to the depths of the cold war. And there they seem destined to remain, frozen until the day Castro no longer rules...
President Clinton was not the only politician facing a Cuban crisis last week. So was Steve Forbes. The Republican presidential aspirant continued to come under fire from conservative Cuban-American quarters in Congress for the "repugnant activities" of one of his top political boosters, economic consultant Jude Wanniski. In 1994 Wanniski made a friendly port of call to Havana in a private effort to market his famed supply-side capitalist remedies to top Cuban officials. Wanniski, then a Bob Dole booster, received a prompt letter of admonishment from the Senate leader ("I would appreciate being consulted..."). Though Forbes opposes Castro...