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...park, Mas plots his return with an army of economists, lawyers and corporate executives. A committee of businessmen has drawn up a $15 billion blueprint for economic reconstruction, complete with an inventory of government property to be privatized after Castro's fall. An economic peace corps of 10,000 Cuban-American professionals will be trained to fan out across the island and teach free-market methods to their bewildered communist comrades. Lawyers have drafted principles for a new constitution. Videotapes smuggled into Cuba reassure islanders about the exiles' plans, and the foundation's shortwave radio frequency assaults Cuban airwaves with...
...Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses a change...
...think it's reflective of the climate in Cuban-American relations," Bueno said. "We spent three to four weeks making phone calls to anyone considered a hardliner in the world of Cuban issues. I would have thought the conservatives would have wanted a chance to speak their views, but they only wanted to dictate their terms...
...panel, which attracted an audience of about 65 people, was cosponsored by the Kennedy School's Hispanic Caucus and the Cuban-American Committee Research and Education Fund. Members of the fund said last night they back attempts to negotiate with Cuba...
...Aruca said, Castro lowered theexorbitant tourist prices originally intended todiscourage Cuban-American visitors, but has sincelimited the number of visitors allowed from theU.S...