Outcasts and Immigrants

Cuba makes a deal with the U.S. to take back some undesirables

In the demonology of the Reagan Administration, Fidel Castro's Cuba ranks high, probably somewhere between Libya and Nicaragua. The only serious U.S. combat action in a decade has been against Cubans, during last year's Grenada invasion, and the Administration has refused even to consider fullscale, formal diplomatic relations. Thus it seemed a bit out of character when the White House last week announced a deal to re-establish immigration arrangements, the first agreement between the U.S. and Cuba since 1977. Castro will take...

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