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...Summit in New York, which will be attended by both men. During Castro's last visit to a U.N. event in 1995, U.S. officials naturally snubbed him and left him off the guest list for President Clinton's gala event hosting all the world leaders present. But the wily Cuban strongman, who has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, wasn't about to sulk off to a movie. He simply went back to the same Harlem church he'd addressed in the early '60s for an uproarious pep rally that drew most of the press corps (and the headlines) away from...
...days, nobody knows quite what Castro is planning for the night of Clinton's gala. He is slated to attend an Upper West Side church service for invited guests only on Friday; that, too, could turn out to be a traffic-stopper, given the fact that thousands of Cuban-Americans still smarting from their defeat over Elian Gonzalez will relish the opportunity to vent their rage...
...Castro's hobnobbing with the likes of Jiang and Mahathir (both of whom, like many other world leaders, have their own reasons for sticking it to Clinton in his own backyard) is irritating to Washington, to say the least. After all, according to the U.S. script, the Cuban leader is a polecat who should be shunned rather than feted by Washington's primary Asian trading partner. But these days, fewer and fewer countries are reading off Washington's script in the conduct of international affairs, least of all when it comes to Cuba. Which makes Castro's presence...
...China's President Jiang Zemin had arrived and headed for the Waldorf Astoria, where President Clinton is also staying. But that posed a problem, because Castro and the Chinese president had planned to hold bilateral talks. If the meeting was held at the Waldorf, you could have U.S. and Cuban delegates crossing paths and some words. So the meeting was moved (in secret) to Cuba's fortresslike U.N. mission on Lexington Avenue...
GORE 70 --To support Israel --To open up to the Cuban people --To support DNA testing in trials --To allow partial-birth abortions only to save the mother's life --To not attack Bush personally --To make Social Security solvent until 2054 --To cut the crime rate for the next 10 years --To wipe out all special-interest money --To have universal health coverage for children by 2004 --To keep the military the best in the world --To end child labor and protect workers --To not raise the retirement...