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...Like the Confederates at Gettysburg, however, the exile activists may have chosen to fight on terrain more favorable to their enemies. Fidel Castro has used Cuban anger at Elian's plight to shore up his own regime, and gains whether Elian returns home or stays in Miami. The prospects may be reversed for the Miami leadership: Losing the Elian case after a fierce fight will accelerate the decline in their political fortunes that has been evident since the pope's visit to Cuba two years ago. "Many people believe that this fear of losing their influence in the U.S. helped...
...aluminum skiff in the predawn hours of Sunday, Nov. 21. High among them must have been hope. In the 40 years since Fidel Castro came to power, tens of thousands of Cubans have taken a fateful step to a better life in just the same way: from shore to boat, with hopes of a quick and easy landfall. And 1999 was a particularly popular year for the trip. The Coast Guard picked up more than 1,300 rafters, more than double the 1998 number...
...electronic surveillance. And concerns over a domestic backlash may make Syria reluctant to accept Israeli demands that "normalization" include open borders and free trade. But the most important sticking point remains territorial: Syria interprets the return of the Golan to mean a return to the border - along the north shore of the sea of Galilee - that existed before their June 1967 war; Israel is prepared to withdraw only to the border established in 1923 during the colonial era. The difference between those two lines is only a few square miles, but the location of those square miles alongside Israel...
...credentials and an association with Russia?s reformist politicians, it?s clear that the former played the major role in bringing Putin to power - and therein lies a harsh message for the West. Yeltsin had established a working relationship with Washington based on copious infusions of Western cash to shore up his deeply unpopular regime in exchange for Russian compliance with the U.S. agenda on the international stage and lip-service to Western ideas on how the Russian economy should be reformed. But the systematic international humiliation that Yeltsin?s approach brought for the erstwhile superpower reached a breaking point...
...will suffice. And concerns over a domestic backlash may make Syria reluctant to accept Israeli demands that "normalization" include open borders and free trade. But the most important sticking point remains territorial: Syria interprets the return of the Golan to mean a return to the border - along the north shore of the sea of Galilee - that existed before the June 1967 war; Israel is prepared to withdraw only to the border established in 1923 during the colonial era. The difference between those two lines is only a few square miles, but the location of those square miles alongside Israel...