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Some Western officials tried to find encouraging signs from the meeting. British diplomats claimed to detect new realism in the summit's debates because the conferees rejected a Cuban proposal to praise the Soviet Union's support for nonaligned nations. But the Reagan Administration did not draw such fine distinctions. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The litany of arbitrary and unfounded charges is both highly offensive and counterproductive...
...smoke or not to smoke? For Fidel Castro, that is no longer the question. The Cuban President, who turned 60 last month, gave up his beloved stogies a year ago. Last week he urged others to follow his lead. "I haven't taken a single puff since last Aug. 26," Castro said. "I don't miss it, and I feel better...
...Daniloff began his first stint in Moscow. He stayed there until 1965, covering the Cuban Missile crisis from the Soviet perspective, Krushchev's fall and Brezhnev's rise...
...intimidated by the Sandinistas' sizable air-strike capability. Moreover, they are outflanked by the Sandinistas' quick-response counterinsurgency forces and beefed-up electronic intelligence-gathering capabilities, all under the watchful eyes of some 2,500 Soviet and East bloc advisers and technicians, as well as up to 8,000 Cuban military advisers. Still, it may be simply that the relative ease and safety of life in the Honduran camps has dampened the contras' appetite for the guerrilla life. "The U.S. helped corrupt them by offering them better living conditions, free meals and freedom," says a Honduran intelligence official. "They lost...
...Politically, we have relations of mutual $ respect and independence. The Soviet Union knows we have a government of political pluralism, a mixed economy and a stand of nonalignment. There has never been any insinuation that we should change our policies or make changes more along the lines of the Cuban or socialist model...