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Several paintings by local artist Blondel Joseph, who was born in northern Haiti, were on display in the Lyman Common Room at Agassiz House, along with other paintings, including depictions of the refugee camps at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...anabrupt policy reversal, President Clinton today agreed to allow some20,000 Cuban refugees currently detained at Guantanamo Bayinto the U.S. Any other Cubans who flee their country will be forcibly returned home -- a provision to which Havana had not previously agreed.TIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the unexpected pact, announced this afternoon, is an effort to avert what the U.S. military worried would be new riots in the refugee camps in the hot summer months. (The Administration said it was increasingly concerned about the safety of some 6,000 American troops now stationed at Guantanamo.) That's not the only reason...
...rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still holds 28,000 rafters in legal limbo, most at Guantanamo, and has resolutely kept the subsequent talks fixed on matters of migration...
...Castro has a game plan of sorts, so has Clinton: keep Cuban migrants at home and Castro bottled up. Two weeks ago, the U.S. began sending 7,500 rafters temporarily housed in Panama to Guantanamo to fulfill a pledge that they would not stay more than six months. The Cubans, who rioted in December, were angry at being returned to the island they had fled. ``We are political pawns,'' said Alberto Lujardo as he walked off the plane at Guantanamo. ``We've been betrayed by the U.S. government and by the communist government of Cuba...
Under heavy military guard, the first planeloads of Cuban refugees were forcibly returned from Panama to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Last September President Ernesto Perez Balladares agreed to allow up to 10,000 boat people to stay in Panama at U.S. detention camps for a six-month period. Nearly 8,000 Cuban children and close relatives have since qualified to emigrate to the U.S., provided they have full financial sponsorship. To transfer the remaining refugees by the March 6 deadline, American forces will airlift out 500 people almost every...