Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...that concern had been put to rest -- or at least diplomatically laid aside -- after a June 10 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at which Mandela assured a contingent of American Jewish leaders that he supported Israel's right to exist within secure borders. There was no such comfort for Cuban Americans in Miami, where Mandela is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. They are threatening to stage demonstrations against Mandela's expressions of gratitude for Fidel Castro's support during Mandela's years of imprisonment...
...date, the Administration's response has been consistently negative. "We won't talk to Castro until his behavior changes," Secretary of State James Baker reiterated recently to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. "Or until the Cuban Americans say different," says a White House aide, echoing Moscow's appraisal of U.S. politics...
...Well," says Jorge Mas, a millionaire Miami businessman who chairs the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, "it may finally be time to say different. With the Soviets recognizing us as key to a resolution before Castro is gone, testing Gorbachev's reasoning may be risk-free." Cuban Americans even more conservative than Mas oppose any conciliatory gesture, but if Mas' view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti...
...knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over Castro, and the Cuban- American community signals Bush that he can turn U.S. policy, then all the elements will be there...