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...Soviet base in Cuba would spell disaster for American security. The United States's hard-line policy grew even harder, faithfully perpetuated by a succession of presidents, both Democrats and Republicans. Through Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, through the Vietnam War, Woodstock, disco, and Reaganomics, Castro still ruled in Havana, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States despite the crushing weight of the trade embargo...
...They got nowhere on the issue that Castro blames most for his economic problems: the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo. The deal sealed in New York last Friday amounted to a simple swap: the U.S. will take in at least 20,000 legal Cuban immigrants each year, and Havana will halt the wave of boats and rafts that have carried 35,000 would-be refugees north from its beaches this year...
...arrangement will please Cubans who have close relatives among the exiles in Florida and who are willing to drop by the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana to apply for emigration. The big losers are the 25,000 Cubans who risked their lives at sea only to wind up in tents at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station or in Panama. They cannot apply unless they return to Havana...
Details of this one reached Havana just as a swirling rainstorm sent pedestrians scurrying for shelter in doorways along the seaside Malecon. They thought the 20,000 figure was far too low. "One million, maybe 5 million people want to go to the U.S.," said a young woman, "but they keep changing the rules...
...drama at the National Theater of Cuba, called A Wall in Havana, speaks eloquently of the country's dilemma. As the play opens, a couple lives separated by a wall: she is an arts director for the government with a string of important titles; he is a photographer living for the moment with few possessions. He -- representing the people -- yearns for her, despite having found a young lover. She -- the government -- is enticed by a young love but rejects him. In the end, he is alone, using a pickax to batter at the wall. On the other side, she pulls...