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- <text id=89TT2288>
- <title>
- Sep. 04, 1989: World Notes:Cuba
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 04, 1989 Rock Rolls On:Rolling Stones
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 23
- World Notes
- CUBA
- Adios to Castro?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The ties that bind Moscow and Havana have lately been
- tenuous at best, thanks mainly to Fidel Castro's refusal to
- heed the Kremlin line. The antagonism has intensified since
- Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, particularly since the Cuban
- President and his brother Raul, who is Defense Minister,
- rejected perestroika as nothing more than warmed-over
- capitalism. Now Cuban officials who have recently defected to
- the U.S. are suggesting that Soviet disenchantment with the
- Castro brothers has become so great that the Kremlin has
- discreetly begun seeking ways to replace them.
- </p>
- <p> Some State Department officials claim that the Castro
- brothers are aware and have fought back. Fidel suspected that
- Major General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, who was executed last
- month for drug dealing, was really acting under Soviet direction
- to topple the government. Most U.S. analysts, however, are
- skeptical that Soviet-Cuban relations have degenerated to the
- point of covert hostility. A Moscow-based diplomat who closely
- monitors Soviet-Cuban relations dismisses the possibility as
- "very farfetched." </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
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