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...demonology of the Reagan Administration, Fidel Castro's Cuba ranks high, probably somewhere between Libya and Nicaragua. The only serious U.S. combat action in a decade has been against Cubans, during last year's Grenada invasion, and the Administration has refused even to consider fullscale, formal diplomatic relations. Thus it seemed a bit out of character when the White House last week announced a deal to re-establish immigration arrangements, the first agreement between the U.S. and Cuba since 1977. Castro will take back as many as 2,746 criminals and mental patients he dispatched...
...When Fidel Castro opened up the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980 and approximately 125,000 Cubans streamed into the U.S., President Carter urged Congress to pass legislation making the newcomers eligible for permanent resident status. But Congress never complied. Since then, the Marielitos, most of whom live in Florida, have remained in legal limbo. That began to change last week when new regulations went into effect permitting the Marielitos to register for permanent resident status. Outside Miami-area immigration offices, Marielitos crowded into lines as early as 3 a.m. At week's end over 20,000 had taken...
...Cubans came to Florida during the boatlift from the port of Mariel from April 15 to Oct. 15, 1980, after Cuban President Fidel Castro expressed his indifference to their leaving. They have since lived in a legal limbo, unable to bring their relatives here...
...rights abuses. When the President proclaimed martial law in 1972, he vowed not to cut his hair until "peace and democracy are restored," and his long white locks became his trademark. Marcos condemned the murder and ordered an investigation by the acting armed forces Chief of Staff Lieut. General Fidel Ramos. That did not appease the opposition. Said former Senator Salvador Laurel: "One by one our leaders are being killed or eliminated...
...split in the military over the allegation. A pro-government Manila newspaper carried a full-page advertisement signed by 68 of the 83 general officers in the 200,000-man Philippine armed forces expressing "unwavering loyalty and support to General Ver." Conspicuously absent was the name of General Fidel Ramos, the acting Chief of Staff. Some of the officers whose names were listed complained privately that they had not signed the statement...