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...NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...much sense does it make to trade with China, the most communistic, militaristic and anti-human rights regime on the planet, and not to trade with Cuba, which poses absolutely no threat to our national security? The 37-year trade embargo against Castro's Cuba has not yielded any appreciable results and unequivocally should cease. GENE CARTON St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Although he has alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a referendum. The constitution entrenches the president's power and allows him to potentially remain in office until 2012. It also affirms state ownership of Venezuela's oil industry, which Chavez hopes will fuel his "new economy" that redistributes wealth among the poor. While the flood is a win-win scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floods Boost Venezuela Strongman's Popularity | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Miami's rabidly anti-Castro lobby are poised to lock the little boy in a cold war custody battle between his U.S. relatives and his father and grandparents in Cuba. As soon as Elian was plucked from the ocean, Cuban-American politicians appropriated him as a poster child, even using a photo of him lying on a gurney to illustrate anti-Castro placards distributed at last week's World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. "If the image of a child can be effective in campaigns like muscular dystrophy, then it can make people aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War over a Poster Boy | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Friday, Fidel Castro drew more than 2 million people into Cuba's streets to demand the return of the boy, who is currently staying with a great-aunt and great-uncle in Miami. The same day, Florida relatives filed a claim for political asylum on the boy's behalf, to prevent him from returning home to his natural father, with whom he remains close. While the U.S. has urged Elian's father to make a formal claim with immigration authorities, legal challenges by the boy's relatives - backed by Cuban exile organizations - are likely to delay his early return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans 1, Exiles 1, Six-Year-Old Elian, 0 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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