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...They are the healthiest and best-educated younger class in Latin America, but they are greedy for more. They yearn for capitalist fare like jeans and jogging shoes, rap records and videocassettes. They have had their fill of rhetoric and bureaucracy, of long lines for buses and hamburguesas, the Cuban version of an American favorite, made with pork. The most visible rebels, known as los freekiss (freakies), hang out in the park around Coppelia ice-cream parlor, flaunting long hair and T shirts splashed with the logos of heavy-metal bands. But even government-approved bands like Carlos Varela sing...
...dissatisfaction is particularly acute today. Last August, Cuba tightened its rationing measures because of Soviet aid cutbacks and the long-standing U.S. embargo. Every Cuban is entitled to only two rolls a day and less than a pound of meat every nine days. Particularly painful to the fashion-conscious young is rationing that limits them to just one new dress, a pair of pants and a pair of dress shoes a year. Grandmothers hand over their yearly ration of textile coupons to the young; mothers sell their gold jewelry for consumer goods like TVs and radios. "Those under...
...start his life over, completed its second season on NBC. Though its modest ratings were not enough to get it renewed for next fall, it won critical hosannas and enjoyed a strong cult following. Los Gusanos, his novel chronicling decades of personal and political intrigues in Miami's Cuban-exile community, came out in June to warm reviews. City of Hope, his movie about race and politics in a decaying industrial town (and the sixth of his films in which Sayles has appeared in a featured role), will be released in the fall...
...danger is proliferation, and proliferation has just begun. Within a decade, according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, 15 countries will acquire ballistic missiles. About half will have nuclear weapons on top of them. Moreover, Soviet leaders have been rational and thus deterrable. We went to the brink during the Cuban missile crisis but did not go over. Both sides understood and would not bear the cost of nuclear war. We cannot be so sure that will be true of Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya, the nuclear powers of the future...
...Relations have frayed even more because of U.S. immigration policy. Washington's hostility to Castro's regime means that nearly all Cuban immigrants are treated as political refugees and allowed to remain in the U.S. But almost all the would-be immigrants from Haiti are classified as economic refugees and sent back to their homeland. The disparity in treatment was vividly illustrated in early July, when a Coast Guard cutter intercepted a fishing boat carrying 161 Haitians and two Cubans they had plucked from a raft in the Caribbean. Both Cubans were permitted to stay...