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...Venezuelans stiffed us. They really did." The Bush Administration official was complaining about how Venezuelan authorities placed Orlando Bosch, a convicted anti-Castro Cuban terrorist, on an airliner bound for Miami in February 1988. His arrival in the U.S. presented the Reagan Administration with a quandary: lock Bosch up or free a man widely seen as a hero in Florida's Cuban-exile community...
...They treated the former pediatrician, now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one official: "The Cuba lobby did it again...
...Pritzker of Hyatt -- were invited to pay secret visits to the island. Once there, flown in surreptitiously via Mexico City, the Americans were shown scale models of prime beachfront property and asked to select one for future development. Intriguingly, these displays were set up just outside Fidel Castro's office in Havana. Castro was nowhere in sight during Carlson's visit, but Pritzker was treated to a 2 1/2-hour meeting with the leader. No deals are possible until Washington lifts its trade sanctions. But both hotel barons were assured that Cuba is willing to discuss friendlier relations with...
Since his release from prison, Nelson Mandela has traveled 63,350 miles in 84 days to 23 countries, urging the retention of sanctions against South Africa and raising hackles by his refusal to denounce Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries who have supported his cause. The strain is showing: last week Mandela came down with mild pneumonia in Ethiopia. Mandela, who turns 72 this week, is considering a vacation that could raise some eyebrows: a three-week Caribbean sojourn as Castro's guest in Cuba...
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, J.D. Reed, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...