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WASHINGTON: Cuba can expect billions of dollars in international aid once Fidel Castro finally leaves office and the Caribbean island becomes democratic, according to a new Clinton administration report. The 24-page survey entitled "Support for a Democratic Transition in Cuba" was required under last year's Helms-Burton law which threatens sanctions against foreign companies doing business in Cuba. The report, prepared by the Agency for International Development, says that Cuba's transition to democracy would cost up to $8 billion in the first six years, with the majority of the money coming from the U.S. Other possible sources...
...this week, stressing that standing up for the nation's interests worldwide was not possible "on the cheap." For his part, Helms maintains that the U.S. should quit the UN if it is not streamlined. He likes Albright's tough stance toward rogue leaders like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and her support for NATO's eastward expansion. That issue will be up for discussion in July when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to start formal negotiations with NATO. Enlarging NATO is also a priority for Senator William Cohen, who was confirmed Wednesday to head the Pentagon...
...communist island. "We're working with the government of Cuba to develop some joint programs or approaches dealing with human rights issues. We have now come to an agreement on some directions we can go in together," Axworthy said after a three hour tete-a-tete with Fidel Castro. The trip has raised concerns in Washington, which shuns any contact with Havana and criticized Canada for rewarding the dictator. Yet Canada has long had a special relationship with Cuba. It is the biggest foreign investor on the island, trading to the tune of $500 million last year. Axworthy...
Wearing blue jeans and a contemptuous look, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori swaggers into the dank cellblock of the Castro Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...
Across town, some 20 heavily armed Tupac Amaru militants still hold 74 hostages--including Fujimori's brother--inside the Japanese ambassador's residence, which they seized in a stunning raid on a gala cocktail party Dec. 17. Their main demand: the release of 450 comrades imprisoned in holes like Castro Castro. Turning to the reporters from Time he has taken into the prison, Fujimori waves his hand at the cells. "How do you expect me to negotiate with violent criminals like these? I can't let these people go. Never...