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...Castro seems to hope he can crack the embargo with the help of American business. He has seen how its lobbying opened up U.S. relations with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and even North Korea; a trade mission headed by retired admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his son is visiting Pyongyang this week. So Castro is promising Yankee investors they will make a lot of money in Cuba if they will pressure Washington to end the blockade. He has made some modest gestures in recent months to underscore his appetite for American investment: shaking the hand of Vice...
...first glance, "Strawberry and Chocolate" seems like a Cuban version of the Manuel Puig/Hector Babenco "Kiss of the Spider Woman." There is the flamboyant gay man, the uptight, straight Marxist and lots of political oppression. Straw-berry and Chocolate" also contains the maudlin elements of what in hack reviewer parlance is called a "feel-good movie." However, it is the critique of Cuban society as it stands and the glimpse into a decaying Havana which make Gutierrez Alea's film so pointed and topical. "Strawberry and Chocolate" makes a plea for tolerance, a virtue not much in evidence in Castro...
...middle class" tax cut that would apply to incomes up to $200,000 a year. This is supposed to be a damning critique. The implication is that class warfare is a terribly old-fashioned or impolite or downright un-American thing to engage in. Class warfare: it sounds Marxist at worst, European at best...
...powerful triumvirate beneath him could pose a strong challenge. The standard bearer of the liberal-reform faction, Zhu Rongji, 66, Deng's | economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military...
...South Wind Changing by Ngoc Quang Huynh (Graywolf Press). A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. include earning a bachelor's degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir. Even today, concerned that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he writes, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond...