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...being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington might begin to thaw...
...woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along the Malecon; the Nacional above us, like a giant beached galleon: it was like a romantic's Eden. And here I was with the brightest Eve in Havana, and she was asking me to rescue her from Paradise...
...usual locations prove too risky, and Nathan Detroit (Benjamin Toro), must scramble to raise the $1,000 necessary to rent out the Biltmore Garage. The infamous Sky Masterson (Joel Kurtzberg) breezes into town on his way to Cuba, claiming, amongst other things, that he can get "any doll to Havana" that Detroit names. Detroit, desperate for cash, bets $1,000 on a militant missionary named Sarah Brown. Their wager launches the requisite musical love story...
...anabrupt policy reversal, President Clinton today agreed to allow some20,000 Cuban refugees currently detained at Guantanamo Bayinto the U.S. Any other Cubans who flee their country will be forcibly returned home -- a provision to which Havana had not previously agreed.TIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the unexpected pact, announced this afternoon, is an effort to avert what the U.S. military worried would be new riots in the refugee camps in the hot summer months. (The Administration said it was increasingly concerned about the safety of some 6,000 American troops now stationed at Guantanamo.) That's not the only reason...
...their third round of "migration" talks with U.S. officials in New York today amid worries that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms' efforts to tighten a U.S. embargo could spark a new boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked the Helms proposal...