Word: polemist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings that trail off. "Cubans are verbally immobilized," he is quick to declare, and "waiting constitutes the inner dynamic of Cuba." The whole tropical police state, in his telling, becomes a land of silences, forged out of apathy or fear. By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro. Soon he is committing himself to such statements as "It isn't hard to predict that in a free election the candidate Fidel Castro would receive less than 10 percent of the votes" -- a claim that would surprise even some of Castro's staunchest...
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