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...declared that he was ready and willing to talk, seizing the high ground in a game he largely controls. His ability to provoke or stop a flow of refugees almost at will gives him a power to bedevil Washington that he is using with relish. This week American and Cuban officials will resume low- level talks, focused strictly on migration, that were suspended last December. But as for wide-ranging negotiations -- no way, responded Clinton; that would look like capitulation. Yet something had to be done with the balseros, or rafters, as Cubans dubbed them. So Secretary of Defense William...
...addition, Clinton has let his policy be driven by the hard-nosed anti- Castro Cuban exile community in the U.S., or rather the faction of it composed of early exiles, many of whom are grouped in the Cuban American National Foundation. It was after meeting with them at the White House that Clinton followed up his decision to bar the refugees by forbidding U.S. residents to send money to relatives in Cuba and by cracking down on the charter flights by which families could visit those left behind. The moves especially distressed younger and more recent refugees who still have...
...fleeing -- while simultaneously cutting off family remittances and worsening the poverty driving most of the balseros to brave the perils of the Straits of Florida. Clinton loudly proclaims he will not let Castro "dictate American immigration policy" -- in the very act of reversing the 35-year policy of welcoming Cuban refugees with "an open heart and open arms," as Jimmy Carter...
...expedient, however, is the only thing the Administration can think of at the moment. Officials seem to have no good idea of what might happen next. It is conceivable that they can put off further the day when they will have to rethink basic Cuban policy -- or their lack of one. The flood of refugees could slow to manageable proportions. After almost 6,500 Cubans were plucked from the waters on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the Thursday-Friday total dropped to a bit more than 2,000. But the drop-off may have resulted only from the heavy rain...
...exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee rioted, and dozens of people were injured. Even after reclaiming the statehouse in 1982 and going on to the presidency, he remembers Mariel all too well. In discussions of what to do with the new wave of refugees, says a senior Administration official, "the fundamental issue...