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...aren't Cubans in the streets demanding the downfall of Castro and communism? Last week the State Department called Cuba's future grim, "a prolonged, slow decline waiting for a catastrophe." In a still-classified warning to President Clinton in August, the CIA predicted that "tensions and uncertainties are so acute that significant miscalculations by Castro, a deterioration of his health, or plotting in the military could provoke regime- threatening instability at virtually any time." The CIA report sketches out "serious instability" and "the risk of a bloodbath...
...Khamovs, whose fellow Baptists make up less than one-half of 1% of the population, say otherwise. The motherland, they say, has simply exchanged a state credo of godlessness for an older tradition: the hegemony of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yuri smiles as he recalls that under communism, his parents were denied permission to build a house because it might be used as a religious meeting place. Under the new democracy? The same: "My wife, who taught Sunday school, couldn't rent a place for classes. My relative is a pastor in Barabinsk in Siberia. The local mayor told...
Miami's fate, it is often said, was sealed when Fidel Castro started reading Karl Marx at the University of Havana. The mass exodus of middle- and upper- class Cubans, driven into exile by communism in the 1960s, began a process that lifted the city from its utter dependence on domestic tourism into the global economy. The Cubans, given immediate political asylum and resettlement help by Lyndon Johnson and subsequent Administrations, prospered...
Americans have become indifferent to foreign affairs since the fall of communism, Bernard M. Gwertzman '57, foreign editor of The New York Times, told a crowd of more than 40 yesterday at a brown bag lunch at the Kennedy School of Government...
Clinton roared into office on a wave of idealism. With communism's collapse, he reasoned, America could freely indulge its passion for promoting democracy and protecting human rights. The President was quickly labeled the archetypal New Interventionist, and promising forceful action became a staple of his statements. The cost of such promises became clear in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. Clinton's retreat from all three has accommodated the public's revulsion at risking American lives without an obvious national interest on the line. When humanitarian interventions require force, the President has learned, there is safety in indifference...