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Soon after he took his post at Time in 1993, managing editor James R. Gaines expressed a desire to set up a meeting with Fidel Castro. Last August negotiations between Time and Cuban officials began in earnest, and Time Inc. chairman Reginald K. Brack requested a meeting as well. On Feb. 1, with an agreement near, Gaines and Brack traveled to Havana, accompanied by Time International managing editor Karsten Prager, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, deputy chief of correspondents Richard Hornik and Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth...
...called a "feel-good movie." However, it is the critique of Cuban society as it stands and the glimpse into a decaying Havana which make Gutierrez Alea's film so pointed and topical. "Strawberry and Chocolate" makes a plea for tolerance, a virtue not much in evidence in Castro's Cuba, which arrested homosexuals and interned them in labor and rehabilitation camps...
Milk was a gay politician in San Francisco who became a martyr of the homosexual-rights movement in 1978, when he was shot and killed by another city councilman. The opera divides his life into three parts: "The Closet," "The Castro" and "City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) was talking pretty tough today when he introduced a bill to tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba and yank financial aid to any former Soviet country that helpsPresident Fidel Castro. Helms said he will not be satisfied until Castro is gone. "Let me be clear," the senator said, reverting to Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Christine Gorman, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Thomas McCarroll, Marguerite Michaels, Anastasia Toufexis STAFF WRITERS: Ginia Bellafante, Christopher John Farley, Kevin Fedarko...