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...when Bill Clinton sat down with his top advisers last week to figure out what to do with the thousands of Cuban refugees floating toward Florida on every kind of makeshift raft they could tie together, there seemed no other choice. The President had already insisted he would not let the boat people into the U.S. proper -- that was politically unacceptable -- but the refugee flow swelled rather than ebbed. Blockade the island? Not really; that would be an act of war. Send the refugees back to Castro? Too heartless, and besides, he would not take them...
...numbers of Cuban refugees, which waned during the recent storms there, are surging again. Wednesday's count: 2,159. The Coast Guard expected a similar number today...
...Cuban negotiators will meet in New York City Thursday with clashing agendas. In one corner: Ricardo Alarcon, Cuba's National Assembly president, who represented his country in 1990 at the United Nations and in 1991 during the Gulf War, known for a sharp tongue and debating skills. In the other: Michael Skol, the second-ranking official in the State Department's Latin American bureau. The U.S. will offer to relax immigration standards for Cubans if Fidel Castro will stop the refugee flow. Alarcon, who succeeded in getting a majority of the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the decades...
...Clinton Administration reportedly plans to grant visas to as many as 20,000 Cubans a year -- up from fewer than 3,000 last year -- if Fidel Castro will stop the exodus. That's just one item on the list when U.S and Cuban officials meet in New York City on Thursday. They'll also discuss "credible reports" cited today by U.S. officials at the Guantanamo Naval base that Cuba has released minimum security prisoners, allowing them to join the boat people on rafts headed for Florida. Meanwhile, the influx of Cubans headed for Florida began climbing after a virtual halt...
...Vincent was slain. He was a peasant-rights movement leader, but he had made no political appearances since Aristide's 1991 ouster. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mike McCurry denounced the killing, and rejected speculation the Clinton Administration would delay considering a Haiti invasion until it had handled the Cuban crisis...