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...waiting to see what TIME would say about Fidel Castro's crackdown on Cuban dissidents [WORLD, May 19]. Tim Padgett's thoughtful and balanced appraisal of Oswaldo Paya, the Cuban dissident who stayed in the country to work for democratic reform, was worth the wait. Paya's drive calling for a plebiscite on free speech and multiparty elections has placed the emphasis on a hopeful future. Castro has run Cuba as his feudal estate for 44 years, but his naive supporters are finally seeing him for the tyrant he is. As Padgett wrote, Paya has succeeded in "wresting the Cuba...
Clarence Douglas Dillon ’31, a longtime ambassador and diplomat who during the Cuban missile crisis served as one of a handful of top White House advisors deciding the fate of the world, died Jan. 10 in New York City...
...Dillon’s most crucial roles in public service, however, had nothing to do with the United States economy. He was picked by Kennedy to be a member of a small council to determine the United States’ response to the Cuban missile crisis, according to Allison...
Allison recalled sending a tape of a presentation on the Cuban Missile crisis that his class had done to Dillon, and that the former secretary had written him back a “very kind” letter detailing how he himself agreed and disagreed with the presenters...
...plays that wind up on Broadway and off Broadway get their start at regional theaters. Nor should it be a surprise (though it was) that this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to a play most of New York City's tastemakers had never even heard of: Cuban-born playwright Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, which had been produced only at the 104-seat New Theater in Coral Gables...