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WORLD, Page 23World NotesCUBAAdios to Castro?
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.
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."