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Totalitarian countries, however, are better at withstanding trade sanctions than democracies are at imposing them. Fidel Castro's regime, for one, has easily survived a 29-year ban on selling sugar, cigars or anything else...
...savvy feet. It's just as well. A young woman in a white micro-mini has claimed his attention -- when he's not distracted by a cold, imported Heineken and the $1.2 million club layout with its wall of cascading water. Juan Antonio, 19, has gone to heaven in Fidel Castro's Cuba. He may never be unhappy again...
...Latin America, there are no beggars on the streets of Havana. The infant mortality rate is 10.7 per 1,000 births, in contrast to 60 before the revolution. "We see socialism is difficult to achieve, but capitalism isn't the answer either," says Sierra Wald, 17. "Nobody wants % Fidel to step down. People worry about what might happen without him." Young Cubans increasingly see themselves as the last idealists in a world that cares only about money. "Our society may be inefficient, but it is humane and just," says Dennys Gonzalez. Says a 25-year-old teacher: "Everybody's really...
Ninety miles away in Miami, Cuban emigres wish for Fidel's imminent collapse, but the island's university students who volunteer to take a two- week "vacation" in the fields don't see trouble brewing in Paradise. Marlen Fuentes, 21, her pants caked with red mud after a nine-hour day, is typical of the young Cubans who come. "We need a change," she says, "but from inside our system. We need to talk about our mistakes and find solutions inside socialism." These aren't assembly-line thinkers; they genuinely care about the gains of the revolution...
Lies of Our Times seems to despise everything the Times does, says or thinks. It accuses the paper of going out of its way to kick Fidel Castro, of ignoring Yasser Arafat's efforts to promote peace in the Middle East, of deliberately being mean to Nicolae Ceausescu and of overlooking the testimony of a waitress who once worked for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby. In recent issues, Lies has denounced as "outrageously, insultingly, totally false" the seemingly plausible contention that the elderly in the U.S. have a relatively well-organized political lobby, and blasted a Times reporter...