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Since his release from prison, Nelson Mandela has traveled 63,350 miles in 84 days to 23 countries, urging the retention of sanctions against South Africa and raising hackles by his refusal to denounce Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who have supported his cause. The strain is showing: last week Mandela came down with mild pneumonia in Ethiopia. Mandela, who turns 72 this week, is considering a vacation that could raise some eyebrows: a three-week Caribbean sojourn as Castro's guest in Cuba...
...anti-American regimes in Afghanistan, Angola and, worst of all, Cuba. Now that Bush has in effect agreed that new taxes are necessary to reduce the budget deficit, opponents could shout that Americans are being taxed indirectly to finance the building of Soviet missiles or even to prop up Fidel Castro...
...assured a contingent of American Jewish leaders that he supported Israel's right to exist within secure borders. There was no such comfort for Cuban Americans in Miami, where Mandela is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. They are threatening to stage demonstrations against Mandela's expressions of gratitude for Fidel Castro's support during Mandela's years of imprisonment...
...Cuba continues unabated at between $3 billion and $6 billion annually, depending on who is counting. "We have conservatives too," explains the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Viktor Komplektov. "There is so much else to push that it is simply easier to avoid a fight with those who idolize Fidel." With Gorbachev thus constrained, the path to perestroika in Havana runs through Washington. "Talk to the Cubans," Gorbachev has told Bush. "Something can be worked out. Castro can be a good partner, if only you give him the chance...
Would Castro moderate his hard line in exchange for an end to TV Marti, or a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba? "Unless Fidel believes we will actually walk away if he doesn't deal, he won't deal," says a Soviet diplomat. "And he is nowhere close to thinking that." Castro knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over...