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South Africa's gold and coal mines are in the best of times harsh places where thousands of blacks live in crowded hostels far removed from their homes and families. The mines were closed to journalists last week as a long-threatened strike, the largest in South Africa's history, began. But the walkout was scarcely three days old before stories of trouble started to spread...
Apparently neither Aspillaga nor Del Pino knew the other planned to defect. Analysts viewed their actions as a sign of growing unease within Cuba, as the economy continues to fizzle and Castro seeks to impose increasingly harsh austerity measures. Persistent but unconfirmed reports circulated last week that the U.S. had granted asylum to a third disgruntled Cuban official. Said a U.S. diplomat: "After 27 years, they have realized that Fidel has ruined Cuba...
...foot, the ragged families set out from China's harsh state farms and make their way to the coast. After buying passage with their savings, they sail for Hong Kong. For the second time in eight years, they are refugees. Viet Nam expelled them first; now China has rejected them...
Worse yet, there was no way to avoid harsh bottom-line judgments of what Reagan had actually done, or failed to do, in the Iran-contra fiasco...
Administration officials are quietly encouraging the opposition's efforts. The State Department hopes to persuade the White House to pursue a strategy that would include increasingly harsh public denunciations of the general, discreet overtures to members of Noriega's inner circle and, eventually, support for his replacement by a moderate military man who would serve as a caretaker until presidential elections could be held. The Defense Intelligence Agency is trying to help identify a potential successor, but the task is not an easy one. "There are some honorable, professional military men," says a ( U.S. official. "But Noriega has relegated them...