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Angered by the death of a policeman in a refugee hijacking in early August, Castro threatened to open the ports and unleash the population. "Castro appeared on national television and said military police would no longer patrol the waterfront," explained Eugenia Ventacourt, 44, a former executive secretary from Havana. Like hundreds of others, she crept down to the coast to see whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal...
Most experts argue that the embargo allows Castro to blame the U.S. for his failures and should be modified or dropped. "The trade embargo," contends Harvard professor Jorge Dominguez, "should be seen as a tool, not an altar in front of which we kneel." But for now, Clinton shows no sign of standing...
...1960s Washington hated Fidel Castro so much that the CIA fabricated seashells to explode when he was scuba-diving and a powder that would make his beard fall out. He and his beard survived all those barbs. Today the loathing has softened, but its spirit still animates America's punishing economic embargo against Cuba, now 32 years old. Virtually all commerce with the island is banned. Ships that trade with Cuba cannot visit American ports for six months. Most Americans are at least technically subject to prosecution for visiting there. Even the U.N. sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq permit...
...Administration argues that isolating Castro is the best way to make him democratize, adopt market reforms and compensate Americans for property seized during the revolution. Other countries trade freely with Havana and have long , since struck compensation deals for their own seized assets. But with Cuba's economy in sugar shock -- the yields in cane fields have slumped to levels not seen since the 1920s -- the embargo's boosters hope it will break Castro's back. "Ending the embargo is his No. 1 foreign policy priority," says a U.S. official. And what Castro wants, Washington opposes...
...would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol boats. This time they knew it would be smooth sailing as the tide pulled them out beyond the 12-mile limit into the Straits of Florida. That is, smooth sailing against Castro. They had yet to survive the sharks and storms...