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...their bones that nothing good will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses a change...
...demonstration of the trust that blossomed from their friendship occurred during a London meeting last August. Panama's Manuel Noriega wanted diplomatic , relations with Moscow. Pavlov asked Aronson's advice, which was predictably negative, and the Soviets passed. In the Reagan years, it is unlikely that Moscow would have forgone such an advantageous diplomatic move simply because of U.S. sensibilities. Like many such small gestures, that one too registered on Bush's calculus of Washington's stake in Gorbachev's success...
...Pavlov, 58, spent his childhood in Velikiye-Luki, a town of 100,000 people 250 miles west of Moscow. In 1938 his father, a Communist Party functionary, was accused of exploiting the area's peasants. He was imprisoned by Stalin's secret police, and his library at home was sealed. "I walked by that room every day," says Pavlov. "I will never forget." As soon as he could read, Pavlov pored through a tome on Stalin's 1930s trials. "From my father's experience, I knew that many had been unjustly treated," says Pavlov, who dates his distrust for dictatorships...
...Pavlov remembers his early schooling as little more than a continual drill in Marxism-Leninism. "I recall one of my friends being asked to analyze a political point," he says. "Our teacher said that two of his three observations were correct because they accorded with Comrade Stalin's views. But the third deviated from the official line. The only explanation for my friend's heresy, the teacher said, was that the devil had taken over part of his brain. That's what school was like...
...Pavlov nonetheless made good grades and was admitted to Moscow's prestigious Institute for International Relations. He joined the Soviet foreign service in 1954. "The Gromyko years were drudgery," says Pavlov. "The ministry was unimaginative and dictatorial. With Shevardnadze, it is a constant intellectual debate. He is a pleasure to work...