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...HAVANA Directed by Sydney Pollack; Screenplay by Judith Rascoe and David Rayfiel...
Czechoslovakia is preparing to distance itself from Cuba by no longer allowing his diplomats to operate from its Washington embassy. (The U.S., of course, has no relations with Havana.) Soviet officials are planning to meet in Moscow next month with Cuban exiles. Does Castro feel a chill...
...HAVANA...
...that go nowhere and meetings that trail off. "Cubans are verbally immobilized," he is quick to declare, and "waiting constitutes the inner dynamic of Cuba." The whole tropical police state, in his telling, becomes a land of silences, forged out of apathy or fear. By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro. Soon he is committing himself to such statements as "It isn't hard to predict that in a free election the candidate Fidel Castro would receive less than 10 percent of the votes" -- a claim that would surprise even some...
Other Communist regimes began to totter when disaffected citizens filled foreign embassies demanding freedom to leave. Fidel Castro is determined to avoid that fate. Rather than permit 15 Cubans seeking asylum in the Spanish embassy in Havana to depart, he angrily renounced a $2.5 million economic cooperation program with Spain. And in a fiery three-hour speech marking the 37th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Castro accused the U.S. of instigating the wave of embassy break-ins that created the diplomatic standoff...