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...quite. Washington is not yet prepared to lift the embargo, although pressures have been mounting within both the State Department and Congress for normalizing American-Cuban relations. Last week Senator George McGovern, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, flew to Cuba for a four-day visit. The former Democratic presidential nominee was the third Senator to make a factfinding visit to Cuba in the past eight months.* He went, as he put it, "to see for myself what the Cubans have accomplished in their system. I'm going to try to learn. I want to see what...
...McGovern's timing was apt. It came right before the opening of the OAS foreign ministers' meeting in Washington last week. The Cuba issue was not on the group's formal agenda, but Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he thinks that the OAS has reached a "general understanding" on a formula for ending the trade and diplomatic embargo. At the same time, two congressional subcommittees opened joint hearings aimed at proposing new legislation that could lift the economic embargo...
Accompanied by 30 U.S. newsmen, including TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, McGovern and his wife Eleanor were given an extensive whirlwind tour of educational, health and agricultural facilities developed during the Castro regime. Cabled Hannifin: "Amiable, wisecracking and radiating charisma and confidence, Castro as usual turned up unexpectedly and unannounced, at a state agricultural farm managed by his half-brother Ramon. There he took the McGoverns in tow, riding around in his Russian-built command car (with a special rack for his Kalashnikov rifle...
...knowledgeably on cattle stock and breeding. He popped in for ice-cream cones for the entourage at a dairy station, announcing expansively: 'They're at government expense.' Then he led everybody into the Santa Clara Rum Co. warehouse, and supervised the sampling of 100-proof rum. McGovern barely sipped the stuff and puckered up. 'Don't light a match,' cautioned Fidel cheerfully. 'The place will blow...
...press conference in Havana the next day, McGovern, visibly worn from a post-midnight Castro-conducted tour of the city, proposed that one starting point for bettering relations might be an exchange of baseball and basketball teams between the two countries-a suggestion the Cuban Premier immediately embraced. Added McGovern: "The embargo is foolish and self-defeating. The sooner we lift it the better. The next move where Cuba is concerned is up to the U.S." At week's end White House officials said that they welcomed Castro's conciliatory remarks, but that a formal lifting of diplomatic...