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...campaign to improve relations with various nations around the world, including the U.S., Cuba's President, now 69 years old, had been working too hard and traveling too much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes...
Brothers to the Rescue, the exile group whose planes were recently shot down, does not appear to be linked to prior violence. Yet, since they recently dropped leaflets over Havana urging revolution, their missions cannot really be considered merely civilian. To dramatize the seriousness of this action, would the U.S. allow Russian planes to drop handbills encouraging revolt over Washington, D.C.? Furthermore, the Cubans claim to have gained intelligence from a double agent who infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue that the group was planning acts of sabotage. In the full context of this situation, it is easy...
...Cuban boat people stopped at sea, the Brothers needed a new mission. Over the past several months, its members have dropped supplies to refugees headed for the Bahamas, and searched for the trickle still coming through the Florida Straits. Twice in the past few years they went in over Havana to drop leaflets expressing support for dissidents. Last summer Havana warned that if Brothers violated Cuban airspace or Cuban waters the group would be attacked, and in August the State Department announced that it took the Cubans' warning seriously. The U.S. told Brothers to the Rescue and other similar groups...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton today called Fidel Castro's regime "repressive and violent," and announced a list of sanctions designed to send a stern message to Havana. Clinton was responding to the downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets...
...visa. He joked that he will not return until Giuliani fixes the potholes in the road from the airport. But the briefness of the trip probably worked to Castro's benefit. He flew off with the press still curious and businessmen eager to head to Havana. As another show-biz adage has it: always leave them wanting more...