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...refugees if Washington agreed to talk about other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun to realize that the exodus is making his tattered regime look like a dismal failure throughout Latin America. Says a senior Administration official: "The signals have gone from appearing berserk to showing some restraint. The question now is: Will the real Fidel Castro stand...
...Castro miscalculation is also a factor in the exodus. Perhaps as a propaganda gesture, perhaps simply to raise foreign currency, he admitted 100,000 Cuban Americans for short visits to relatives over the past two years. Said Enrique Torres, 36, a Havana auto mechanic: "Seeing all those watches and good clothing-it blew people's minds...
...Castro who largely decides whether refugees can start streaming toward the U.S. Why the latest exodus? It seems that Castro is using the episode as a way to vent some of the anger and frustration that have been rising in Cuba. Economic conditions have worsened after some improvements a few years ago. The selling price of sugar on the world market has fallen from 660 per lb. in the mid-'70s to a current low of 60. The tobacco crop has been nearly wiped out by blue mold. Cuba today survives on a Soviet subsidy of about $8 million...
Castro was not making the exodus easy for anyone except those on his list of preferred deportees. Many of the others were asked to pay the Cuban government back for their educations. Some paid $3,000. People owning homes could ask to leave, but when they vacated their houses, the buildings were seized by the government. If they could not get on a Florida-bound boat, they had no home to which they could return...
...they came, landing daily at Key West in sturdy shrimp boats, speedy pleasure cruisers, leaky outboards. The flotilla that had begun setting off from Florlida two weeks ago to pick up refugees at the Cuban port of Mariel had more than tripled in size by last week. Declaring the exodus an "unprecedented emergency," President Carter called off a scheduled U.S. Navy exercise near Guantánamo Naval Base and ordered the diversion of 34 ships to help the U.S. Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there...