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...often more violent SDSers. Jerry Rubin: "I know [being Jewish] made me feel like a minority or outsider in America (sic.) from my birth and helped me become a revolutionary." And Abbie Hoffman (presumably on radical Jewish impotence): "Fidel [Castro] sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year's day... The tank stops in the city square. Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking of men such as Rubin and Hoffman is valuable...
This predicament has not escaped the notice of the developing world. In Havana last spring, at the annual meeting of the Association of Third World Economists, representatives of developing countries praised a proposal for the formation of a "debtors' cartel" to negotiate more favorable credit terms from Western lenders and put an end to the IMF's "financial colonialism...
From 1977 to 1979 Smith served as director of the State Department's Office of Cuban Affairs; he then went to Havana to head the U.S. interests section before resigning last month. While acknowledging that no U.S. Administration has ever devised an effective policy for dealing with Fidel Castro, Smith especially blasts the rigid, confrontational approach of the Reagan White House. From the start, Smith contends, the Reaganauts were obsessed with forcing Cuba to stop meddling in Central America and, in particular, to quit supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. But U.S. attempts to pressure Castro backfired...
Smith argues that over the past 18 months Washington spurned at least three separate diplomatic initiatives by Havana. Last November, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig met secretly with a Cuban official in Mexico City; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Vernon Walters conferred with Castro in Havana four months later. Both meetings were unproductive. As a good-will gesture, Smith contends, the Cubans also informed the U.S. in December that they had stopped shipping arms to Nicaragua, implying that they had turned off the weapons flow to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Washington responded by further lambasting the Havana regime in public. Smith...
...Administration, however, vehemently rejects Smith's advice that it can best change Cuban policies by "demonstrating over time that compromise is in Havana's interests." The State Department denies that the U.S. ever "closed the door to a dialogue," and Secretary of State George Shultz indicated last week that chances for opening talks now were nil. "If Cuba changes its behavior, fine," he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "But Cuba is not likely to do that in response to some general plea from...