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- WORLD, Page 40World NotesCUBAState of Siege For Freedom
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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.
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- The 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.
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- In his speech, Castro assailed Washington's "sick obsession"
- with Cuba and sarcastically called for U.S. ships to come and
- pick up unhappy Cubans.
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