Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuba watchers, keep your eyes peeled. Fidel Castro turns 71, but unlike last year's birthday bash, the word is that El Jefe is too ill to deliver any public words of encouragement to the communist faithful...
...also caught the attention of national media with occasional broadsides, like when she railed at Fidel Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes in early...
Reina Aguero fixes electrical wires in Fidel Castro's Cuba, while living with the "remnants of a bird's nest" in the chandelier of her decaying house; Constancia Aguero Cruz basks in affluent loneliness in Key Biscayne, Fla., where Cuban songs play "slow as regret, on the afternoon radio." Constancia wears Adolfo suits as she drives her pink Cadillac to the factory she owns; Reina sashays braless among the mahogany trees. Yet though they live on opposite sides of the revolution, both Aguero sisters share something deep as blood: a matter-of-fact commitment to the magic of their island...
...simply ignoring the situation, but nothing so far has helped Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori dislodge Tupac Amaru rebels who continue to hold 72 hostages. Now the President is trying to offer the rebels a new home. Fujimori was in Havana Monday to make a pitch to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who told him that Cuba would offer asylum to the rebels if all parties can agree on an arrangement. "We have discussed some points that I can't disclose, obviously, because our objective is to liberate the 72 hostages. We must be discreet," Fujimori said. While the President played down...
...tell it like it is." Desired translation: she's going to be very tough on human rights. Actual translation: she's going to talk very tough on human rights to tin-pot dictators but keep the tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro should not expect any change of U.S. policy under a woman who denounces Cuba as an "embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will...