Word: castro
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...boss loves her for her tart tongue and tough stands: he still keeps the bumper sticker bearing her infamous sneer at Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign...
...that he was among the first to applaud her appointment. And she understands the world like a refugee, a multilingual, multicultural warrior for human rights and democratic principles. "At last," says a former diplomat in the Reagan and Bush State Departments, borrowing from Albright's well-known diatribe against Castro last year, "we have a Secretary of State with cojones...
Some political players emphasize this tough, aggressive and hardline approach to world politics as somehow masculine. Referring to Albright's attack on Fidel Castro, one former State Department diplomat explained that "we have a Secretary of State with cojones." (If you don't know this word, ask someone who speaks Spanish.) No, Madeleine Albright is not afraid to break her nails. She is not introducing a stereotypically feminine or pacifist influence in foreign affairs. Yes, Albright can play hardball just like the boys...
Maybe religion isn't just the opiate of the masses. Supreme socialist FIDEL CASTRO certainly seemed dazzled by his visit to POPE JOHN PAUL II last week. Reporters weren't invited to a meeting that incensed many Cuban exiles, so we can only speculate what the atheist and the anti-Marxist talked about. The Catholic teachers that schooled each of them back in the '30s? Why Castro expelled all those priests? How the Pope helped bring about the demise of Marxist Europe? More likely, they touched on the trade embargoes against Cuba, which both oppose, and the possibility...
...friendly relations with Cuba, as he did with Vietnam, he will probably continue the status quo. There is no lobby for ending restrictions on Cuba, while many vocal Cuban-Americans, as well as cranky and aging cold warriors such as Jesse Helms, think that Clinton is too soft on Castro...