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...Horn is highly vulnerable. Moscow has previously paid a heavy price-in military and other aid-for the friendship of Somalia. But the Somalis and the Ethiopians are ancient enemies, and the Soviet backing of Ethiopia is sharply watched in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. When Cuban Premier Fidel Castro visited Mogadishu two months ago, he proposed that Somalia join Ethiopia and Southern Yemen in a federated state-an alliance that would have vastly strengthened Moscow's influence. Somali President Mohammed Siad Barre said no thanks, and complained bitterly about the Soviet Strela (SA-7) missiles that the Ethiopians...
...they talked for more than seven hours, and she did her best to assure the Prime Minister-an admirer of Fidel Castro-that U.S. policy toward Cuba was changing. Indeed, four days later the White House announced plans for a limited exchange of diplomats with Havana, a step toward resuming full relations...
Covering Senator George McGovern's visit to Havana two years ago. Reporter Barbara Walters extracted a promise from Fidel Castro: the Cuban leader would give her his first major interview for American television. Thus Castro personally chauffeured Walters around the island over a four-day period last month, and ABC will present the choicest hour of their conversation this Thursday (10 p.m. E.D.T.). But somebody got to Fidel first...
When Jimmy Carter allowed the ban on American travel to Cuba to lapse last March, no one was happier than cigar aficionados. They had been deprived - legally, at least - of the pleasures of Cuban stogies since 1962, when the embargo on trade with Fidel Castro's island was imposed. A smoker is now free to ask a Cuba-bound traveler: "Hey, going to Havana? Pick me up a couple of boxes of Montecristos." But lately many Americans returning to the U.S. from points outside Cuba laden with Havana's best have been rudely awakened by customs inspectors...
...which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that is a major reason why Fidel Castro is eager to re-establish trade with the U.S., once Cuba's prime customer...