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...long." "What needs to be done" is the easing of the 37-year U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned by all of Washington?s allies. But those "special interest groups" ?- anti-Castro Cuban exiles with significant electoral power in the swing states of Florida and New Jersey ?- will have Al Gore?s people jumping on the brake wherever possible. "Conventional wisdom is that Gore?s interests will stand in the way of doing much of anything on foreign policy," says TIME White House correspondent...
Other Miccosukee moves are less pleasing to environmentalists. Besides building a casino on the Everglades' eastern edge, the tribe has sided with property holders in a disputed 8.5-sq.-mi. area a few miles to the south. There, some 1,400 landowners--many of them Cuban exiles--are resisting local government efforts to buy up their properties and flood them as part of the restoration. Surprisingly, the Miccosukees have sued in favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration...
...life. Gone is the generous Che who tended wounded enemy soldiers, gone is the vulnerable warrior who wanted to curtail his love of life lest it make him less effective in combat and gone also is the darker, more turbulent Che who signed orders to execute prisoners in Cuban jails without a fair trial...
...received a personal tour in Cuba from a young Fidel Castro, following the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Later Castro took center stage for Boyd as he witnessed the Cuban missile crisis...
...received a personal tour in Cuba from a young Fidel Castro, following the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Later Castro took center stage for Boyd as he witnessed the Cuban missile crisis...