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...disappoint. His memoir, In Confidence, is a no-pulled-punches page turner of a diplomatic history, spiced with anecdotes and insights. He recounts how Stalin once told his Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while...
...hopes of doing joint ventures in Cuba of the kind the embargo still forbids. Today he must study each shift from Havana and Washington for nuances affecting his clients, an obsession he admits is not shared by the younger generation of entrepreneurs. "It's not true that all Cuban Americans live and die by what's happening in Cuba,'' he says...
Other exiles, alarmed by what they see as a creeping erosion in the embargo, have got behind a bill sponsored by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. It would allow Cuban Americans whose homes or business holdings were confiscated by Castro to file suit in U.S. courts against foreign firms or individuals who do business in Cuba that involves their former properties. "Even if Cuban exiles cannot win back their property in the near future, we want to make sure no foreign investors get it either," says Nick Gutiarrez, a Miami attorney who represents a group of former Cuban sugar-mill...
...counter the softening of sentiment among his fellow exiles, Gutiarrez has also co-founded Puente, Spanish for "bridge," a group of Cuban professionals who aim to explain the older generation's anti-Castro fervor to younger Cuban Americans. He doesn't buy the claims by Menoyo and other dialogistas that they offer a centrist alternative to anti-Castro extremism. "What's a moderate?" asks Gutiarrez. "To say someone's a moderate because he'll talk to a brutal tyrant is a perversion of the label...
President Clinton is also intent on winning Florida, which he lost by 2 percentage points in 1992. He is wooing voters there with his policy of blocking Cuban refugees, his anticrime rhetoric and his softer-than-the-Republicans stand on Medicare cutbacks. Vice President Gore kicked off the whole Clinton re-election campaign with two fund raisers in the state last month, and he, his boss and Hillary Clinton expect to make at least four trips there over the next five months. Any excuse will do: two weeks ago Clinton showed up to meet his new nephew and play some...