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...believed that the Soviets were planting nuclear missiles in Cuba to counter American installation of warheads in Turkey. But the Soviet missiles were intended, at least in part, to neutralize the threat of a U.S. invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of U.S. air and land forces to the southeastern U.S. in the early fall of 1962 and the fact that an invasion was proposed to Kennedy as a serious option (he rejected it), McNamara insists that such an action was never in the works...
...hostilities date back to 1965, the beginning of a six-year airlift that brought 260,000 refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Miami. Just as the civil rights movement was beginning to open doors for advancement, blacks found themselves competing with the Cubans for jobs, housing and other opportunities. Since then, the number of Hispanics has more than tripled, to 825,000; they now outnumber blacks by 450,000. Cubans have become the dominant economic and political force in Miami. The city's first Cuban-born mayor, Xavier Suarez, 39, was elected...
...rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...
...CIGAR. Fidel Castro gave up his trademark Havanas in 1985, but only now has the reason been disclosed: according to Soviet officials, doctors discovered a small malignancy in a lung. Castro, 62, is under regular treatment that has slowed but not checked the course of the cancer. His public appearances have become less frequent, and he seems to have lost weight. Soviet leader Mikhail ! Gorbachev, who canceled a trip to Cuba last month after Armenia's earthquake, wants to reschedule as soon as possible, perhaps as early as this month. High on Gorbachev's Havana agenda: a discussion of possible...
...speech before such dignitaries as Secretary of State George Shultz and Cuba's Fidel Castro, Salinas tried to spell out his vision for modernizing and uniting Mexico. Said he: "There won't be miracles. But I assure you there is hope." Some of Salinas' early actions, though, are leading skeptics to wonder how serious he is about restoring faith in the country's discredited government: a fifth of his Cabinet are holdovers from the outgoing administration...