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Three weeks ago, Menoyo enraged them further by meeting with Castro in Havana. It was one small move in the flirtation between Fidel and the U.S., testing the Cuban leader's willingness to make real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members...
...Watergate shadow, drug dealer, scoundrel. He was, for archaeologists of roguery, the fossil evidence that money can buy power and immunity from the reach of the law. Now, suddenly and surprisingly, he was back in the news. But last week Robert Vesco became not a player but a pawn. Havana, which had provided him rich refuge for a decade, seemed to decide the moment had arrived to offer him up to the U.S., which had been chasing him unsuccessfully for 23 years...
...simply for arriving late for work, was so incensed at the tardiness of the bodyguards assigned to him by the government that he gave all of them Rolexes to keep accurate time. Last week the only security guard at his empty white-washed house at 2114 204th Street, in Havana's elegant Atabey suburb, turned journalists away, saying, "If you want to know more, please direct your inquiries to Villa Marista." Villa Marista is the headquarters of Cuba's state police, who deal with only the most sensitive cases and do not give up secrets easily. Was Vesco under arrest...
...while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip. Vesco was also said to have arranged for Lehder's planes to fly through Cuban air space. There was speculation last week that Havana would turn Vesco over to Washington to foster the datente both sides have been trying to achieve. "The Cubans are looking for ways to curry favor," says a State Department official. But no one believes that Vesco will be turned over for free, and the Cubans were reportedly vexed when news...
Robert Vesco, one of the two or three most wanted U.S. fugitives for more than 20 years, is now the focus of a diplomatic poker game between Havana and Washington. Last week, Cuban officials quietly notified American officials that they had detained the rogue financier, who fled the U.S. during the Watergate scandals amid charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations...