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THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE WILL undoubtedly be viewed as a watershed in the history of the Cuban Revolution, as our last Report showed. It has yet, however, to become a watershed in U.

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Scott B. Martin
When I arrived at the Ford plant with union president "Vicentinho," several thousand workers were gath- ered at the factory gates. We made our way through the crowd and headed toward the office of the workers' com- mission, two cramped rooms littered with the tiny plastic cups Brazilians use Scott B.
John Spicer Nichols
FIDEL CASTRO ONCE CALLED IT "AN ELEC- tronic war between David and Goliath..
Max Azicri
IN 1978 FIDEL CASTRO DISCUSSED WITH A U.S.
James Ferguson
In the eastern urban sprawl of Santo Domingo, a vast concrete cross-shaped structure is rising steadily into the capi- tal's skyline. A ramshackle and over- crowded barrio was torn down, and thousands of families were evicted to clear the way for the so-called Colum- bus Lighthouse.
Castro, the Blacks, and Africa by Carlos Moore, UCLA Center for Afro- American Studies, 1989, $43 (cloth), $23.50 (paper).
John Spicer Nichols
T V. MARTI IS A CLASSIC POLITICAL PORK BAR- .
Panama II McCORD AIR FORCE BASE, WA. About 125,000 people attended an air show on Saturday that was billed as a re-enactment of the invasion of Panama.
Philip Brenner & Saul Landau
THE MORE THAT THE UNITED STATES changes relations with most of its old nemeses, the more its attitude toward Cuba appears eerily frozen in the past. Consider the following items that call forth Cold War d6jB vu: The Bush Administration has tight- ened the trade embargo against Cuba; it has prosecuted a U.
Maria de los Angeles Torres
EVER SINCE FIDEL CASTRO ABRUPTLY ENDED a press conference during Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Cuba last year, when reporters questioned his guest about Cuban resistance to perestroika and glasnost, right-wing Cuban-Americans have sought to take advantage of tensions between Havana and Moscow. Some have even traveled to Moscow to lobby members of the Supreme Soviet to intro- duce resolutions condemning Fidel Castro.
Elizabeth Oglesby
THE LAST TIME I SAW MYRNA WAS FIVE A.M.
Robert Fox & Michael Kamber
Dominican historian Roberto Cassd, has observed Juan Bosch for most of the latter's checkered career. In this excerpt from a longer interview, Cassd discusses Bosch's evolution from a "pro-Marxist populist," to the candidate "with the most coherent plan for restructuring Domini- can capitalism.
Philip Brenner
U S. POLICY TOWARD CUBA HAD A REMARK- .
Maria de los Angeles Torres
A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODED OUTSIDE THE doors of Miami's Cuban Museum of Arts and Cul- ture, in the early morning hours of June 14. It blew off the front of the building and caused considerable damage to the paintings inside.