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...very well write a book about the Razo incident; I am sure he will. But he will reach a time--perhaps by the age of 60 or 65--when everyone will be exasperated with hearing his story. We hope that by then he will have given up writing fiction. Fidel A. Ovalle '92 Member, RAZA Steering Committee
...handful of Gromyko's tales are worth the trudge. For example, he recounts Che Guevara's story of how he became head of the National Bank of Cuba in 1959. Fidel Castro asked the assembled leaders of his revolution, "Tell me, friends, which of you is an economist?" "Che paused. 'I thought he had said, "Which of you is a communist?," so straightaway I said, "I am," at which he said, "OK, you handle the economy...
Some puppets, having had their strings loosened or even cut, can be expected, like Pinocchio, to misbehave as badly as ever. Fidel Castro, for example, is almost as much at odds with Moscow as he is with Washington. But that is no argument for a diplomatic boycott. Quite the contrary. The U.S. would have more clout with such miscreants if it dealt with them directly, through American ambassadors who could remonstrate with local officials and gather intelligence...
Nothing ever seems to change in Cuba -- except for the shadows cast on the island by the outside world. Yet the government of Fidel Castro, 63, seems as convinced as ever it is the rest of the planet that is out of step. While a hurricane of change sweeps across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, toppling leaders and shredding communism, Cuba stands like a lonely lighthouse of ideology, battered but unyielding. "We must dig in with the ideas of Marxist Leninism more than ever," Castro has declared. "Long live rigidity!" Signs along the country's roads exhort, SOCIALISM...
...relations with Bush are a minor mystery. According to Blandon, Bush phoned Noriega three hours before the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983. He asked Noriega to warn Fidel Castro that if Cuba tried to stop the invasion or to retaliate, it would get the same -- or worse. Noriega made the call, and shortly afterward Bush visited him. Blandon says Bush lectured Noriega on the need for democracy in Panama, but also thanked him for helping contain communism...