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...communique from Havana last week sounded downright chummy. "Fidel expressed to Daniel the readiness of Cuba to cooperate with Nicaragua as far as possible to make the policy a success," read the statement. Fidel, of course, was the bearded one. And Daniel was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. The topic of conversation: a peace plan for Central America that Ortega had signed in Guatemala City the previous week...
...being debriefed by the CIA, he described Castro's lavish life-style. The Cuban leader, he claims, has a private fleet of yachts and keeps a luxury home in each of Cuba's 14 provinces. While the populace contends with housing shortages, Castro reserves "hundreds of houses" in Havana's Jaimanitas section for the use of his security guards and aides. While the government demands austerity from the populace, Aspillaga said, officials order underlings to send home foreign luxury items and use government satellite dishes to tune in to U.S. televised movies...
Cuba's government-controlled newspapers made no mention of Aspillaga's defection, though the broadcasts were the talk of Havana. For the past six weeks, Cuban television has been airing a documentary about CIA activities in Havana in which Cuban double agents step forward to expose alleged U.S. spies. Aspillaga's revelations finally made clear why Castro was willing to unmask so many of his own secret agents for the sake of this broadcast: with Aspillaga talking to the CIA, their cover was already blown...
...Stalin and his successors, though, who deserve credit for expanding the ancient national pastime from a merely local amusement to a truly global game. The historic postwar expansion brought coveted big league franchises to such deserving cities as Warsaw, Budapest, Havana, Prague and now even Kabul, where an all-rookie team of Afghan players altered traditional notions of defense by employing the first heat-seeking laptas during regular-season play. Much like the introduction of the corked bat and the designated hitter in the U.S., the Afghan innovation has clearly irritated a few hidebound older fans back in Moscow...
Still, Liman and House Chief Counsel John Nields managed to sketch some broader themes than North's more limited view of how a democracy functions. Nields pounced on North's complaint that his contra support role had been publicized in Moscow, Havana and Managua. "All our enemies knew it," replied Nields solemnly, "and you wanted to conceal it from the United States Congress...