Word: fidel
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...speech after another, Henry Kissinger has been swinging harder and harder at an old troublemaker for Washington, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Last week during an appearance in Dallas, the Secretary used his firmest language yet, warning that the U.S. "will not accept further Cuban military intervention" in Africa and hinting darkly of "decisive action" if Havana refused to pay heed...
Even in defeat, Reagan has affected the President's strategy, moving Ford to the right on many issues. The President has tried to make his Soviet policy sound tougher by purging the word detente. In Florida he sought to attract votes from Cuban Americans by denouncing Fidel Castro as an "international outlaw." This ploy failed; Cuban Americans voted heavily for Reagan because they correctly saw him as more anti-Castro than Ford...
WAITING FOR FIDEL...
...honest. He accompanied Sterling and Smallwood, waited with them in Protocol Residence No. 9 (identified as "the former residence of an American textile tycoon") for the greatest event of the trip to happen: an audience with the Premier himself. Sterling and Smallwood had been promised some time with Fidel, perhaps even a whole day. Smallwood prepares yellow pads full of questions for Castro. Sterling stays looser, anticipates the meeting less as an ideological confrontation than as a social coup...
...audience, however, never comes. A sympathetic translator takes the party on tours of the island. Sterling, feeling slighted, takes his anger out on Rubbo, accuses him of shooting too much film. Smallwood, ever optimistic, gets invited to a diplomatic reception, where he receives a bear hug and sympathy from Fidel, who cannot spare more attention than that. His time is consumed by a visiting dignitary from East Germany. If Rubbo were less tactfill and intelligent, Waiting for Fidel might just be the movie equivalent of the journalist's last refuge, the trusty How-I-Didn...