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...verbally immobilized," he is quick to declare, and "waiting constitutes the inner dynamic of Cuba." The whole tropical police state, in his telling, becomes a land of silences, forged out of apathy or fear. By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro. Soon he is committing himself to such statements as "It isn't hard to predict that in a free election the candidate Fidel Castro would receive less than 10 percent of the votes" -- a claim that would surprise even some of Castro's staunchest adversaries, and raises unanswered questions about...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...sent a military delegation to Cuba to inform Fidel about our proposals and get his consent. Castro gave his approval. We wanted to do the whole thing in secret. Our security organs assured us this was possible even though American planes overflew Cuban territory all the time. Supposedly, the palm trees would keep our missiles from being seen from the air. We installed the missiles aboveground because silos would have required too much time to build and we believed there was not much time before the Americans invaded. It was our intention after installing the missiles to announce their presence...
...reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro's bid to launch nuclear missiles against...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...