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Long hidden in the shadow of his taller, more charismatic brother, Raul has stepped into the spotlight this year as the champion of economic and agricultural reforms long opposed by Fidel. While Fidel was exhorting hungry Cubans with hoary slogans like "Socialism or death," Raul went to the people last spring, asking party members and peasants alike about the government's shortcomings. As economic woes mounted, Raul, head of the country's Revolutionary Armed Forces, subbed for his brother and delivered the traditional July 26th speech commemorating the start of the Cuban revolution. And Raul pushed...
North Korea is the 1990s equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis. By comparison, the other foreign problems plaguing the President are mere irritations...
Released soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film's manic portrayal of the players in the American Cold War machine is no less relevant today. The "failure of the human element," as the president so delicately puts it, does not create the bomb crisis of Strangelove. It is the dreaded "Doomsday Machine," irrevocably set to detonate Russia's entire atomic arsenal at even the slightest nuclear strike and destroy every organism on the planet, which ups the stakes of the Cold War. This is the ultimate Bigtoy in the race for deterrence...
Today's talks between Cuban and U.S. officials wrapped up in Havana on a less-than-decorous note, with Cubans alleging that meddling by Cuban-Americans could start the refugee exodus again. Despite the squabbling today, negotiators -- who apparently had broken off talks -- resumed this evening. TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Havana, reports that chief Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon alleged "the Cuban Mafia in Miami" had jeopardized implementation of Havana's immigration pact with the U.S. by filing suit yesterday to block 1,000 Cuban refugees detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay from returning home. What the Cubans...
Administration officials said they tentatively planned to conduct a lottery that would select about a quarter of the 20,000 Cuban immigrants that Washington told Havana it would accept yearly. In theory the lottery is supposed to create opportunities for currently ineligible emigres, as well as eliminate huge waiting lines at the U.S. diplomatic post in Havana...