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...Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It was a pretty predictable guest list for this crowd. But there was someone sitting at the same table who does not make a regular haunt of Fifth Avenue apartments. Uncharacteristically dressed in a suit, his beard a thinning shadow of its former self, Fidel Castro, 69, nibbled on gold-embossed cookies, told jokes and held forth on everything from elections to heaven and hell. High above Central Park, the absolute leader of Cuba was excellent company, if a little long-winded...
Last week Fidel Castro took Manhattan. He was in town along with leaders of scores of countries to join in the 50th-anniversary celebration of the United Nations, but somehow he became headliner of the show. He received more than 200 invitations, including one from a woman in New Jersey who wanted to hold a barbecue for him. He dined with the Rockefellers, lectured blue-blood investment bankers and stopped by Time Inc., the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Castro even made the front pages of the tabloids when he--like Yasser Arafat--was declared unwelcome...
...embargo. Businessmen, many of whom are eager to go into Cuba, also seemed sold. Dwayne Andreas, head of the agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, attended the Rockefeller dinner and was impressed. "These communists used to be ideological crusaders," said Andreas. "But the communists of 1995 are managers of businesses. Fidel talked like the general manager of AT&T. Even his language is that of a businessman. He was talking about his working capital requirements, his depreciation problems, his repair problems...
...everyone, however, was so pleased. Demonstrators followed Castro around, calling out, "Assassin!" Jose Cardenas, the director of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Washington, said, "How dispiriting for Cubans sitting in misery and squalor to see Fidel feted in New York by the powers that be. His acceptance by them could have set back the prospects for freedom and democracy in Cuba by five years." Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms vowed to renew efforts to make the embargo even tighter...
...animatedly during the session. Boris Yeltsin was also in the front row (two places to the right of Clinton), standing to the left of France's new conservative President Jacques Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left...