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...wacky exploits of a furry extraterrestrial foment democratic urges in Cuba and help topple Castro? Stay tuned: the U.S. may soon begin broadcasting sitcoms (including The Cosby Show and Alf), Mexican soap operas and, yes, news to the land of Ricky Ricardo's birth. The station, called TV Marti, represents Washington's hope that capitalist programming will achieve what the Bay of Pigs invasion could...
...plan is to beam TV Marti's signal to the Havana area from a tethered blimp floating two to three miles above the Florida Keys. But still unresolved technical hitches have postponed TV Marti's 90-day test run three times, and the service is now scheduled to begin sometime in March. Even then, however, Cuban couch potatoes may be stymied by their government. Castro has promised not only to jam transmissions but also to retaliate against this "imperialist ideological tele-aggression," probably by flooding American AM radio frequencies with Cuban programs...
Supporters of TV Marti, the foremost of whom are Cuban emigres, recall that when its precursor, Radio Marti, began operating five years ago, Castro made similar threats. He interfered briefly with U.S. radio transmissions, but relented when it became clear that the programming was not anticommunist invective but entertainment mixed with balanced news, the same formula planned for the TV channel. He also abrogated an immigration accord with the U.S. but restored it two years later...
...advice to Castro would be wait awhile and see," says a congressional staffer who has worked to get TV Marti approved. "It's not going to be blatantly antagonistic. It will be enough for us to show what's going on in the world, what life is like in the U.S." Yet that is precisely what Castro may fear. After all, how can Cubans remain true believers once they see how many sweaters Dr. Huxtable owns...
This premise promises a grim and lugubrious read. So publishing eyebrows shot up last summer when this novel, Marti Leimbach's first, pulled in some $500,000 in advances, including a movie deal with 20th Century Fox. These are uncommon bucks for a beginning writer. What gives...