Word: marti
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...time to say different. With the Soviets recognizing us as key to a resolution before Castro is gone, testing Gorbachev's reasoning may be risk-free." Cuban Americans even more conservative than Mas oppose any conciliatory gesture, but if Mas' view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti is "driving him even crazier," says Pavlov. As the father of both media moves, Mas sees TV Marti...
Would Castro moderate his hard line in exchange for an end to TV Marti, or a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba? "Unless Fidel believes we will actually walk away if he doesn't deal, he won't deal," says a Soviet diplomat. "And he is nowhere close to thinking that." Castro knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over...
...upon the 1992 Summer Olympics, with its windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says Jose Maria Marti Ruffo, a London-based Catalan businessman...
...Whipping up resentment about the U.S.'s TV Marti broadcasts won't feed his people if Moscow's $10 million-a-day subsidy wanes...
President Fidel Castro denounced the broadcasts as "subversive" and a violation of Cuban sovereignty. But rather than jamming TV Marti, his best revenge might be to broadcast his own long-winded speeches into the U.S. A recent blast from Cuba was heard on radios as far away as Nashville...