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Until the Daniloff arrest, surveillance of Westerners had often seemed more comical than dangerous. The KGB's imagination is limited to the shabbier vices, and the easy way to avoid being compromised was to steer clear of the usual peccadilloes: sexual misbehavior, currency speculation and smuggling...
Etiquette. Her family's third-floor walkup, located in a "very, very poor" area, looks shabbier to her now. "I remember when I was growing up that it was decorated nicely," she told TIME Correspondent Sandy Burton. "We had a red velvet couch that I thought was beautiful." Diana's youthful memories are free of the usual ghetto scrounging and deprivation. Her whole family (three brothers, two sisters) sang in the choir of a Baptist church, and Diana learned secular music from a cousin who was known as "the girl with the golden voice." Diana took high school...
...Sanh grows steadily shabbier. More and more "hardbacks" (metal-roofed shacks) are tumbled by the incoming; day by day the protective sandbags and runway matting rise higher on bunkers. Even so, the bunkers cannot withstand direct hits. A rocket or mortar round will collapse a bunker and likely kill its occupants. The Seabees are finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal...
...houses of Acapulco's new jet-setters, like Merle Pagliai's gleaming white villa, are almost all on the eastward side of the bay. This places them away from the older, shabbier part of the harbor town, with its cluster of old streets and peninsula boulevard busy with buses and horse-drawn surreys. Developed haphazardly, with a strong flavor of claptrap and ticky-tacky, the magnificent sweep of beaches has seen the tide of tourism rise, then ebb. Now it is rising again, to fill the well-appointed hotels for the average tourist -El Presidente, Acapulco Hilton...
Grey, not red, is the color of Communism, and by that standard, Cuba's Marxists are succeeding mightily. Havana, once the gayest city in the hemisphere, continues its steady decline into uniform drabness. The people are quieter, the buildings shabbier, the cars fewer and more dilapidated. The U.S. cars that once taxied tourists around are vanishing fast-and so are the American buses. As bone-jouncing replacements, canvas-covered Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies...