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Your roommate is not leading a revolution. You are just imagining things. Arms shipments, beards and unfiltered cigarettes have nothing to with revolution. He's probably reading Marx for Social Studies 10. Has he lost his sense of humor? He's not speaking in Cuban, is he? Have you seen any little red books? Don't worry, everything will be just fine. Paranoia is so bourgeois! You ought to be ashamed of yourself...
...Cuban negotiators began their third round of "migration" talks with U.S. officials in New York today amid worries that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms' efforts to tighten a U.S. embargo could spark a new boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked...
Throughout the 1980s, Reagan and Bush hailed Guatemala's military as resistors of foreign-sponsored communist aggression, a blatant lie. The guerrillas were neither Soviet not Cuban proxies and probably were never more than 2,000 strong. The military was mainly a threat to Guatemala...
...flowwould become "difficult to control" if Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) succeeds with a bill that would punishforeign companies that do business with Cuba.TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays the Helms bill is expected to pass, but Clinton Administration officials plan to forestall a Cuban crisis by promising not to enforce it. Administration officials said today that Havana is striking a tough stance in part becausetalks with the U.S. resume next weekin New York...
President Kennedy's assassination, it turns out, was investigated not only by the Warren Commission but also by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. According to newly released FBI documents, Castro staged his own tests shortly after the murder to determine if one person could have fired three shots in rapid succession to kill Kennedy. His conclusion: multiple gunmen...