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Other Communist regimes began to totter when disaffected citizens filled foreign embassies demanding freedom to leave. Fidel Castro is determined to avoid that fate. Rather than permit 15 Cubans seeking asylum in the Spanish embassy in Havana to depart, he angrily renounced a $2.5 million economic cooperation program with Spain. And in a fiery three-hour speech marking the 37th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Castro accused the U.S. of instigating the wave of embassy break-ins that created the diplomatic standoff...
...trouble began on July 9, when three Cubans forced their way into the embassy building seeking safe-conduct to Spain. To prevent further asylum seekers from entering, Cuban police have blockaded the buildings and Castro has said none of the refugees will be given permission to leave...
...station broadcast a startling announcement: "The government has been overthrown." The author of the statement was Abu Bakr, the fortyish leader of a small Muslim group widely ^ regarded in Trinidad as violent outlaws. Bakr's 250 followers had blown up the police station in the capital of Port-of-Spain, seized the TV station and taken the country's Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage in the Parliament building. Declaring that he did not recognize "man's law" but only the "law of Allah," Bakr said he had seized power "to stop the incest, robbery and drugs, which there...
While most West European banks are thinking about bulking up in their home markets, West Germany's powerful financial institutions are bursting their old bounds. By far the most aggressive institution is West Germany's Deutsche Bank, which has swallowed financial institutions in Britain, Austria, Spain, Portugal and Italy...
...Envigado, a suburb of Medellin. But knowing his whereabouts and bringing him to justice are two different matters. Escobar is well protected in Envigado, which he once represented in congress. Even on the run, he is hard to find in a mainly rural country nearly as large as France, Spain and Portugal combined...