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...Cuban romance with biotechnology began in 1980, when a visiting U.S. physician regaled Castro with tales of the latest wonder drug, interferon. Intrigued, Castro directed Dr. Manuel Limonta, a young Cuban hematologist and immunologist, to set up a facility to manufacture the protein. At first, Limonta and his small staff used human blood cells to produce interferon. But soon the advantages of recombinant DNA technology became apparent, and Limonta started making interferon in giant vats of genetically engineered yeast...
DIED. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA, 67, director; of cancer; in Mexico City. In Castro's Cuba he created daring films such as Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), a portrait of a gay Cuban, and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), an ironic view of the revolution...
Representative Charlie Rose couldn't resist flavoring his arguments with some old-fashioned red scare tactics. Declaring that an end to supports would open the door to Cuban sugar, the North Carolina Democrat demanded to know, "How dare this House bring pleasure to Fidel Castro?" The Congressman will be happy to discover that the existing trade embargo against Cuba will deny any such solace...
...nation while violating its airspace and inciting people to rebel against a government on repeated occasions are harsh provocations. Any self-respecting country would be expected to respond to this kind of repeated attack. Castro's reaction was fair. He tolerated the insult more than a dozen times. The Cuban-American activists got the treatment they asked for. ENRIQUE FARIAS Mexico City...
...ALMOST 50 YEARS IN CUBA AND have often returned there on family business. I can say that the economic depression there has much less to do with the U.S. embargo than with Castro's lining his pockets. He has not, however, been able to destroy the spirit of the Cuban people or stop efforts from abroad to attain freedom for them. I hope to see the end of Castro's regime. I will not predict the result; history will speak for itself. Unfortunately, too many lives have already paid the price for Castro's rule. ASTERIA PENA Coconut Creek, Florida...