Word: cubans
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...just want the U.S. to do its moral duty," declared Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose own sense of moral vision sometimes veers in strange directions. But last week in Havana, as he met with 75 mostly U.S.-based Cuban exile leaders, the dictator seemed to have something humanitarian in mind. He promised to release about 3,000 Cuban political prisoners currently languishing in his jails if the U.S. would agree to accept most of them as refugees. In addition, he pledged an easing of travel restrictions to bring together Cuban families separated by years of exile, a plan that Castro...
...clearly signaling his desire for improved relations with the U.S. But he was also responding to steady criticism over his policy of domestic political oppression. The most recent blast came last month from London-based Amnesty International, which estimated that more than 3,000 dissidents are being held in Cuban jails and charged that "a substantial number of Cuban prisoners are now among the longest-serving political prisoners in the world today." As far as Fidel is concerned, his new offer would settle those issues. He claims that the amnesty would cover 80% of the political detainees in the country...
...Soviets had, in the past month or so, delivered 20 MIG-23 Flogger jets to Cuba. One version of this plane can deliver nuclear weapons. If this is the model now in Havana's hands, the U.S.S.R. has seriously violated the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet leader pledged not to give Cuba offensive weapons...
Another protracted African conflict was heating up in the breakaway Ethiopian province of Eritrea. In the first phase of a major offensive to smash the province's 17-year-old independence movement, Ethiopian forces, backed by Cuban and Soviet technicians and advisers, in August succeeded in reopening the road to the key city of Agordat. There, government troops had been pinned down by guerrillas of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) since late this summer...
...Cuban President Fidel Castro, too, has been badly embarrassed by the increasingly direct role his forces have been playing in the battle against the independence fighters that Cuba helped to train. Not so long ago, Castro proclaimed that the Eritrean struggle was a ''legitimate national liberation war" that Cuba would support to the bitter...