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Some political players emphasize this tough, aggressive and hardline approach to world politics as somehow masculine. Referring to Albright's attack on Fidel Castro, one former State Department diplomat explained that "we have a Secretary of State with cojones." (If you don't know this word, ask someone who speaks Spanish.) No, Madeleine Albright is not afraid to break her nails. She is not introducing a stereotypically feminine or pacifist influence in foreign affairs. Yes, Albright can play hardball just like the boys...
...election over, President Clinton is once again free to look goofy--at least when visiting the Pacific Rim. From left: going native in Australia; wearing a Philippine barong tagalog, a gift from President Fidel Ramos; sporting Thai academic garb during a ceremony at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University; and back in traditional American costume on an Australian beach...
Maybe religion isn't just the opiate of the masses. Supreme socialist FIDEL CASTRO certainly seemed dazzled by his visit to POPE JOHN PAUL II last week. Reporters weren't invited to a meeting that incensed many Cuban exiles, so we can only speculate what the atheist and the anti-Marxist talked about. The Catholic teachers that schooled each of them back in the '30s? Why Castro expelled all those priests? How the Pope helped bring about the demise of Marxist Europe? More likely, they touched on the trade embargoes against Cuba, which both oppose, and the possibility...
Furthermore, although Fidel Castro is often described as a merciless dictator, he's a lot better than some leaders of some countries that the U.S. maintains friendly relations with, such as Indonesia. Or compare Cuba's progress on women's rights with Saudi Arabia's. Even Chinese totalitarians get better treatment than Fidel does...
...long ago, all a Republican presidential candidate had to do was point out that his opponent was soft on Fidel Castro to maintain the G.O.P.'s lock on Florida's powerful Cuban-American community. But Bob Dole has nothing on Bill Clinton. The President has been courting that community, and to them he is now a hard-liner after their own hearts. A Miami poll has found that 41% of Florida's Cuban Americans plan to vote for Clinton, almost double what he won in 1992, finally giving him a chance to take the state he lost by a squeaker...