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...Castro. If fully carried out, it will also help smooth the way for broader U.S. aid, which Washington has tied to an exodus of the Soviet contingent. Coupled with a U.S.-Soviet agreement announced late last week to halt arms shipments to the warring factions in Afghanistan, the Cuban pullout signaled Moscow's desire to disengage from costly commitments abroad and concentrate on more urgent priorities at home...
Havana's reaction was predictable: outrage. In a sharply worded statement, Cuba's Foreign Ministry criticized Moscow for "inappropriate behavior" in failing to consult with its ally before announcing the pullout. The breach of protocol aside, Havana acknowledged that the Soviet military presence had become largely symbolic. The number of Soviet troops on the island peaked at more than 42,000 in 1962, and has been in decline ever since. Far more worrisome to Havana is Moscow's planned change in its conduct of trade, which promises to intensify Cuba's political isolation and economic deprivation...
...Gorbachev's attending the G-7 summit. Among the other G-7 members, Germany is strongly in favor of inviting Gorbachev and of doing anything else that might prop up the Kremlin leader; it trusts Gorbachev far more than any potential successor to carry through the barely begun pullout of 380,000 Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany. But the summit hosts in Britain are divided. Prime Minister John Major has spoken in favor of inviting Gorbachev, but Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is known to be strongly opposed...
TIME's mapmakers keep busy every week: witness the display on the Kurds' struggle against Saddam Hussein that accompanies this issue's cover stories. But the gulf pullout was the most complex map TIME had ever undertaken. Working with Holmes were cartographer Paul J. Pugliese, illustrators Steven D. Hart and Joe Lertola, map researcher Deborah L. Wells and artist Nino Telak. Thanks to computers, all six staff members were able to work on the map simultaneously. Even so, the costly project took them a total of 10 days. (In addition to the pullout maps enclosed in the 6.9 million magazines...
...1/2-in. by 19 3/4-in. pullout in the Feb. 25 issue was based on a design that Holmes had devised for the detailed maps that appeared in TIME every week after the war began. Holmes chose to depict Iraq in bold blood red and the seas in black to convey the starkness of war. The back of the map showed the weaponry being used by both sides...