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...long been closed. The reason his regime should now be in the spotlight is not only for its human rights abuses, but also for its questionable stance on terrorism. In light of America’s ongoing war, it’s time to get serious with the Cuban leader...
...renewed discussion among lawmakers over America’s Cuba policy. All are repulsed at Havana’s latest crackdown. Even Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., a longtime proponent of engagement with Castro, said the sweeping arrests “call into question the very legitimacy of the Cuban state...
...planning to receive his Ph.D. from the history department this November upon completing his dissertation on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Zakarin. Originally from Miami, Fla., Zakarin graduated from Amherst College...
...Cuban President Fidel Castro normally can't stand being ignored. But he has chosen a moment when the world is looking the other way to carry out a startling roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, the day before war broke out in Iraq, 78 dissidents and independent journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. The evidence? Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya...
...9/11. Mikhail Gorbachev recounts for us his first day on the job running the disintegrating Soviet Union--and how he broke the news to his wife Raisa the night before he accepted the post. Robert McNamara takes us inside the White House on the pivotal day of the Cuban missile crisis, while Betty Friedan describes the scene at an official Washington lunch where she and some colleagues exchanged table napkins on which they wrote the charter for the National Organization for Women. Carrie Fisher tells about the day when Star Wars premiered and her identity as Princess Leia Organa became...