Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FLORIDA: Lawton Chiles, 64, is another larger-than-life pol under pressure from a Bush scion (Jeb, 41). But unlike Richards, Chiles has had crucial help from a highly placed official -- Fidel Castro. Until refugee Cubans began braving the Florida Straits in early August, the folksy, eccentric Governor looked vulnerable to Bush's claims that he was out of touch with Florida's economic interests. By month's end, however, he was Florida's Horatius at the immigration bridge, prevailing upon a reluctant Clinton to intern at Guantanamo those rafters plucked from the sea. Almost overnight, Chiles commandeered Florida...
...staff -- Robertson Barrett, Kathleen Hayden, Waits May and Steve Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...
Instead of bringing democracy through free trade and bettering the life of the average Cuban, diluting the embargo's terms without receiving anything in return will only strengthen the position of Fidel...
...embargo is a valuable tool which should be continued, along with the new punitive measures that have been adopted in the wake of the rafters, until Fidel Castro agrees to step down and hold fair elections monitored by the United Nations. The problem of Cuba is not now, and never has been, the American embargo. The problem of Cuba is Fidel Castro...
This is not to say that no dialogue should be conducted, only that it should be a cautious one, with the unwavering goal of Fidel Castro's ouster, and the removal of his criminal regime...