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- <text id=91TT0422>
- <title>
- Feb. 25, 1991: Castro's Clever Patch Job
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 25, 1991 Beginning Of The End
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Castro's Clever Patch Job
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> Remember those predictions that Fidel Castro's regime was
- on the verge of collapse? White House experts have ruefully
- concluded that after 32 years in control, the old dictator
- still has staying power. While publicly vowing to maintain
- Marxist purity, Castro has allowed a number of
- perestroika-style reforms in the Cuban economy. Among them:
- linking farm-worker pay to the amount workers produce. The
- island has signed a $350 million trade deal with Mexico and may
- reap secondhand benefits when that country completes a
- long-debated free-trade agreement with the U.S.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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