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Since the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Americans have dreamed of dancing on Fidel Castro's grave. They believe in their bones that nothing good will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses...
...Soviet munitions intended for Havana were being transshipped to Nicaragua. Technically, Gorbachev's pledge to Bush was being honored. On the ground in Central America, however, the situation had barely changed. Aronson asked for a clarification: Was transshipment permitted by Moscow? No, said Pavlov. "We will talk to our Cuban friends...
Clever distancing could be admired, but Washington cared more about changing behavior. To press the issue, Baker telephoned Shevardnadze shortly after Malta. "We will have to have another very serious conversation with the Nicaraguans and Cubans, even though we just had a visit," said Shevardnadze, instructing his translator to emphasize very. Baker then sent an eyes-only cable to Shevardnadze listing "requests of the Soviet Union by the United States." Among them, he asked for a "Soviet commitment that all arms shipments from Nicaragua to the F.M.L.N. cease definitively and that no territory of Nicaragua be used by others...
...boogies with a Latin lilt and a dash of salsa, temporarily out of commission with a bad back after a nasty bus crash. (She's on the mend at home in Miami, thanks, doing fine and due back on stage in three to six months.) "I don't feel Cuban or American," the Cuban-born singer reflected before her accident. "I guess I feel Latin Miami." That neatly encapsulates the music she makes too: sunny, open...
...Hungary can openly discuss the 1956 uprising for the first time since the event occurred. At the elite Moscow Higher Party School, which trains apparatchiks to run local and regional party committees, instructors express thoughts that would have been considered heresy only a few years ago. "I tell the Cuban students, 'Castro is great, but he won't last forever -- learn democratic methods,' " says professor Yuri Aksyutin...