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- <text id=89TT1654>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: World Notes:Cuba
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 46
- World Notes
- CUBA
- Thinning Out the Ranks
- </hdr><body>
- <p> It was the equivalent of arresting Dwight Eisenhower in the
- wake of the Normandy invasion. Last week Cuba announced that Army
- General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a hero of the revolution and former
- top commander of Cuban forces in Ethiopia and Angola, had been
- arrested for drug trafficking and corruption. Ochoa, said the
- Communist Party paper Granma, had "reached agreements" with drug
- smugglers "near our territory." In addition, six other military
- officers were similarly arrested.
- </p>
- <p> What was going on? Some observers believed that President Fidel
- Castro was conducting one of his periodic political purges, weeding
- out officers suspected of disloyalty. Others thought he was finally
- acknowledging what the U.S. has long charged: that high-ranking
- members of Castro's government are up to their necks in allowing
- Cuba to become a transshipment point for U.S.-bound cocaine.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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