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Estonian-born Aleksy, the first freely elected head of the Orthodox Church since the Bolshevik Revolution, may be a national leader long after Gorbachev leaves power...
...unabated at between $3 billion and $6 billion annually, depending on who is counting. "We have conservatives too," explains the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Viktor Komplektov. "There is so much else to push that it is simply easier to avoid a fight with those who idolize Fidel." With Gorbachev thus constrained, the path to perestroika in Havana runs through Washington. "Talk to the Cubans," Gorbachev has told Bush. "Something can be worked out. Castro can be a good partner, if only you give him the chance...
...Well," says Jorge Mas, a millionaire Miami businessman who chairs the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, "it may finally be time to say different. With the Soviets recognizing us as key to a resolution before Castro is gone, testing Gorbachev's reasoning may be risk-free." Cuban Americans even more conservative than Mas oppose any conciliatory gesture, but if Mas' view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti...
...Marti, or a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba? "Unless Fidel believes we will actually walk away if he doesn't deal, he won't deal," says a Soviet diplomat. "And he is nowhere close to thinking that." Castro knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over Castro, and the Cuban- American community signals Bush that he can turn...
...theory, Castro sees himself as the Last Communist. A short time ago, his brother and presumed heir Raul told a Moscow audience that before abandoning Marxism-Leninism, the Castros will see their nation at the bottom of the Atlantic. According to a Gorbachev adviser, no one thought Raul was joking...