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...United States got exactly what it wanted--an end to the flood of over a thousand Cuban refugees streaming toward Florida each day--and none of what it didn't want--drawn-out negotiations regarding the longstanding economic embargo of Cuba...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Compromise on Cuba | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was in danger of heating up. Cuba would have made an ideal base for Soviet missiles, and the U.S. policy of isolating Cuba economically and politically was intended to dissuade Castro from cooperating with the Soviets. Also, the embargo was intended to turn the Cuban population against Castro...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Compromise on Cuba | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...even harder, faithfully perpetuated by a succession of presidents, both Democrats and Republicans. Through Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, through the Vietnam War, Woodstock, disco, and Reaganomics, Castro still ruled in Havana, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States despite the crushing weight of the trade embargo...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Compromise on Cuba | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...quickest fix for the Cuban economy would be an end to the 32-year U.S. embargo, but Bill Clinton is not eager to end the cold war-era isolation. In the long run, if Castro will not or cannot adopt free-market reforms, his % country has little hope of ending what Cubans call the "special period": the current era of acute hardship brought on by the fall of the Soviet empire, which had sustained Cuba's command economy until 1991. If he does institute far-reaching changes and the rest of the world -- despite the U.S. embargo -- responds with trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister and longtime Castro aide said in New York City. "The embargo remains, the lack of contacts remains, but the agreement means that we have normal relations in one area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCLUSIVE . . . ALARCON SEES U.S.-CUBA RELATIONSHIP | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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