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What most Americans know about Cuba is Fidel Castro in fatigues and Ricky Ricardo singing Babalu. Its geography is Havana, a bad movie starring Robert Redford, and -- somewhere on the coast -- something called the Bay of Pigs. Add memories of big cigars, and white sugar, which now poses a greater threat to American health than communism. Otherwise, Cuba has been a closed port 90 miles off the U.S. coast, the plague island of the Caribbean...
...pattern goes back at least 30 years. For John Kennedy, bandito Numero Uno was Fidel Castro. The Bearded One occasioned both the greatest debacle of J.F.K.'s term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned...
...only communist dictator still in power outside Asia, Fidel Castro is showing signs of desperation. Last week, ignoring all pleas for mercy from around the globe, he gave the go-ahead to the execution of a Cuban exile and stepped up his campaign against disaffected citizens...
...Christian Democrats, the largest opposition party, have little choice but to form a coalition with emerging center-left parties. The strongest, the Democratic Convergence, received less than 15% of the vote in recent local elections. The Christian Democrats' best presidential hope is still former Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena, whom Cristiani thrashed soundly in 1989. Says Chavez: "The left must think really hard about its proper role in the new El Salvador. We foresee an alliance of democratic forces that would permit a government of concertacion...
Next to confess was Robert Easterling, a Mississippi ex-con who told journalist Henry Hurt in 1985 that he killed Kennedy on behalf of Fidel Castro. And then, in 1989, there was the son of a Dallas policeman who pushed his own (now dead) father forward as the grassy-knoll assassin, introducing some curious confessional documentation he claimed to have found in an attic. (The credibility problem of assassination buffs has not been enhanced by the double standard with which they seem to accept indiscriminately every self-proclaimed assassin or grassy-knoll eyewitness who comes forward, but tear to shreds...