Updates
Six months ago it was unimaginable that Cuban exiles would
line up to return to their native land readied for anything but full-scale combat. Less thinkable was the idea of exiles calling for an end to the 17-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba. Back on the island, the release of the counter-revolutionary prisoners was equally unexpected by the Cuban people.
Argentina and Chile have temporarily avoided going to war over the Beagle Channel. On January 8, in Montevideo, Uruguay, the two countries agreed to resubmit their dispute to mediation, this time to the Pope, and to withdraw troops from their 2,600 mile border Conflict over possession of three small islands in the mouth of the Beagle Channel brought these otherwise like-minded regimes to the brink of war in mid- December.
At the outset of this past fall's East Coast apple harvest, most of the almost 1,000 Puerto Ricans who had been recruited as apple pickers by the U.S.