Word: cuban
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...Havana. But in our hearts we know it is Casablanca. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, for the first hour or so it is a very good thing. For director Sydney Pollack is a living oxymoron, a meticulous romantic. In reconstructing, very persuasively, the life of the Cuban capital as Fidel Castro's revolutionaries prepared to take it in the waning days of 1958, he also recaptures something of the doomy delirium of the film that obviously inspired him. And some of its smartness too: the dialogue -- especially that of its resident cynic, its Captain Renault (Alan Arkin...
Czechoslovakia is preparing to distance itself from Cuba by no longer allowing his diplomats to operate from its Washington embassy. (The U.S., of course, has no relations with Havana.) Soviet officials are planning to meet in Moscow next month with Cuban exiles. Does Castro feel a chill...
Robert Redford and Lena Olin in an old-fashioned Hollywood romance set against the Cuban Revolution. The question is whether Redford, who hasn't appeared in a film since 1986, can still pack them in. Studio execs are nervous...
...Democratic Party is a political organization with ideals and aspirations that I share. Famous Democrats include the founder of the New Deal, the leader who prevented war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the chief of the War on Poverty...
...forces but a stalemate that would embarrass the superpower and last long enough to allow for a U.N.-mediated cease-fire, presumably with Noriega still in power. As good as his word, Castro dispatched a sizable arsenal to Panama, including an estimated 100,000 assault rifles. What the Cuban leader did not foresee is that Noriega would have so little stomach for a prolonged fight...