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...days the Time delegation was bounced back and forth among Cuban bureaucrats, and at times an audience with Castro seemed in doubt. Finally a message was delivered to the group: ``You're invited to dinner. Be ready to go at 7:30 p.m. promptly.'' A few hours later they were dining with Castro--and recording the exclusive conversation that appears in this week's issue...
...building, the Palacio de la Revolucion. At first the 68-year-old Cuban leader ``struck me as looking rather frail,'' observes Prager. ``Older than I thought.'' But ``as we got to dinner and we got into a conversation and the adrenaline began to flow, he became the kind of Castro you think Castro ought to be. Lively. Articulate. Talks with his hands, looks...
Dinner was a five-course affair--salad, soup, fillet of sea bass, lamb, and ice cream for dessert. Castro, who spoke in Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...
...three-hour dinner ended at 1 a.m. Cigars were offered, but Castro, who stopped smoking several years ago, abstained. Throughout the evening, Castro displayed a puckish sense of humor, a fondness for martinis, and a willingness to discuss any topic, no matter how controversial. But despite Castro's openness as a dinner host, there remained something deeply intractable about the man. ``At his core, there was no flinching from what he had always believed, in terms of the virtues of the revolution and the virtues of communism,'' says Gaines. ``However much you might disagree with that, there's something admirable...
...hemisphere's last communist begins his evening with a martini. As he plucks the quintessentially American refreshment from the tray, Fidel Castro seems surprisingly muted. Or perhaps it is simply the mark of age: he is still a big man, trim and barrel-chested, but his 68 years are visible in the skin of his face, which is approaching the translucence of old parchment...