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...their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour of Havana I stopped for a beer at an open-air café, and two carpenters insisted on treating me. When I asked a housewife buying her husband's weekly ration of two cigars how much it cost, she offered...
Among the 650,000 Cubans who have immigrated to the U.S. since Fidel Castro came to power in Havana 15 years ago, the dream for many years was of a post-Castro return to the island homeland. The Cuban exiles still bristle at any sign of a coming rapprochement between the two countries, and were angry about last week's visit to Cuba by U.S. Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell (see THE WORLD). Miami Extra, a Florida-based Cuban newspaper, scorned the Senators as "tourists of socialism" and ran a cartoon showing the two emerging, battered and bloodied...
...like to return to no longer exists," observes one Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign-off. But more significantly, the Cuban exiles are becoming U.S. citizens at the rate of 1,000 per month. And of these, 80% are registering to vote...
...Cuba's dependence on the Soviet Union, which has enabled Castro to survive the OAS embargo and gives the Soviets their only toehold in the Americas, is becoming increasingly burdensome to both Havana and Moscow. The Cubans owe the Russians at least $4 billion, and the debt grows by about $1.5 million daily. The Soviets would like to be rid of this economic drain, and now, in an era of détente with the U.S., they have apparently given up any hope-for the present at least-of turning Cuba into an offensive military base. Castro no doubt...
...major obstacle to improved Havana-Washington relations has already been removed: Richard Nixon. Castro hated the former President, blaming him for advocating the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the feelings were probably mutual. The Ford Administration is now expected to start reviewing its relations with Cuba. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is already on record as saying that he has "an open mind" on the matter. So does Castro. Earlier this year he told Canadian officials visiting Havana that "time is the great healer. We could be doing business with the Americans again some day." That...