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...days the Time delegation was bounced back and forth among Cuban bureaucrats, and at times an audience with Castro seemed in doubt. Finally a message was delivered to the group: ``You're invited to dinner. Be ready to go at 7:30 p.m. promptly.'' A few hours later they were dining with Castro--and recording the exclusive conversation that appears in this week's issue...
...setting was a vast hall in Cuba's government office building, the Palacio de la Revolucion. At first the 68-year-old Cuban leader ``struck me as looking rather frail,'' observes Prager. ``Older than I thought.'' But ``as we got to dinner and we got into a conversation and the adrenaline began to flow, he became the kind of Castro you think Castro ought to be. Lively. Articulate. Talks with his hands, looks...
...dinner conversation two weeks ago with a group of TIME editors and correspondents, the Cuban leader talked of everything from the perfidy of his former Soviet allies to the numerous attempts on his life by the U.S., joking that he holds an ``Olympic record'' in surviving assassination plots. But in truth he faces now what may be his gravest challenge...
...matter how vehemently he may deny it--and he does--the Cuban leader cannot escape the fact that after 36 years of wily international gamesmanship, he is stranded on the wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist bedrock upon which he built his edifice of power has proved itself bankrupt on virtually every continent of the globe. As his own people clamor for a better life, Cuba's socialist dream appears to be fading fast...
...Spaniards and Germans were among the first to invest in tourism, which grew at an annual rate of 17% between 1991 and 1993; now interest is rising in Canada and across Europe. Meanwhile, the Monterrey-based magnate Javier Garza-Calderon of Mexico's Grupo Domos bought up half the Cuban phone system in a $1.5 billion deal last year. June saw the arrival of Cuba's first foreign financial institution, the Dutch ING Bank. British companies are looking into oil exploration--even though France's giant Total has recently pulled out--and Unilever, the British-Dutch giant, produces toiletries...