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...Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuban refugees cavort happily on the beach in a scene reminiscent of a Club Med. They have good reason to celebrate: soon they will be flying off to freedom in the U.S. Meanwhile, less than a mile away, more than 200 Haitian children lounge listlessly under drab green tents, seeking refuge from the harsh midday sun. Camp Nine, their home since last June, is a desolate patch of cactus-filled desert where the only sign of life is an occasional banana rat or iguana. A fence encircles the camp, which is guarded by American soldiers...
...Cuban officials, infuriated anti-Castro activists in Miami and their supporters in Washington, and two veteran U.S. diplomats requested transfers off the Cuba desk. But in another turnaround, the agreement will also permit some 15,000 Cuban rafters now being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington might begin to thaw...
...Administration claims its motivations are compassion and practicality. About 6,000 Cubans at Guantanamo, mostly women, children and elderly, have already received permission to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The remaining 15,000, mostly young men, were facing indefinite detention-a good recipe for riots. welcome to hell, said a sign scrawled on a tent at Guantanamo last week, while inside six sweaty and bored young men lolled on olive-drab cots. Only days after the announcement, they were no longer jubilant, realizing it could still take months for them to reach...
...ferociously anti-Castro Cuban-American community was another piece of the Florida strategy, even though it votes overwhelmingly Republican. During his 1992 campaign Clinton backed a law that toughened the U.S. embargo on Castro. Last year he consulted with Cuban Americans closely before shunting the Cuban rafters to Guantanamo. But Clinton knows that Cuban Americans will be a lost cause in 1996. At the same time, recent polls, some commissioned by the White House, promise more Florida votes from being tough on immigrants than on Castro...
...given special entry rights to the U.S., but will instead be returned to their homeland, where they will have to apply for admission to the U.S. through normal channels. As a humanitarian gesture, however (and in yet another policy reversal), most of the 21,000 refugees being detained at Guantanamo will be allowed to enter...