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From New York, Gorbachev will fly to Havana. Soviet spokesmen at the U.N. and in Moscow stress that his main purpose there will be more remonstrative than comradely. Fidel Castro has been openly skeptical about the new line coming out of Moscow and unrepentant about the export of revolution to Latin America and Africa. Since the Soviet Union provides $5 billion in aid to Cuba annually, Gorbachev will tell him to get with the program of new thinking...
Soviet sources said the pressure to devote more resources to domestic needs means Gorbachev will try to end to the "enemy image." He also will try to convince Fidel Castro in Cuba that it is time to de-emphasize the revolutionary movement in Latin America...
Enrique Balroya, associate dean of the University of Miami's School of International Studies, said that if Cuban leader Fidel Castro had cared about the country's welfare, he would have already attempted to repair relations with...
Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos, 60, has been one of the more discreet members of President Corazon Aquino's fractious Cabinet. Ever since Aquino came to power in February 1986, Ramos has defended her government against a succession of coup attempts. But lately, the popular politician has set Manila abuzz with some calculated innuendos. Talking to the press about his loyalty to the faltering President, he said ambiguously, "I am loyal to the constitution and the presidency. There's nothing personal about it." Ramos cautioned government officials not to use the military as a "tool of the executive branch...
LIGHT AT THE TUNNEL'S END. The negotiators working on a timetable for the withdrawal of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola have learned not to underestimate Fidel Castro. When South African forces mounted a successful operation in Angola at the end of 1987, Castro rushed in as many as 5,000 additional troops, including his own elite presidential guards. Largely because of Castro's move, South Africa backed off and resumed peace talks. Now Castro insists that his troops leave on Cuban ships and planes, not Soviet ones. "Fidel put everything on the line," says a U.S. diplomat...