(Vol. XVIII, nos. 4-5, Jan/Feb - Mar/Apr 1998) [Scroll down for full text links]

Contents
U.S. / Cuba
CIA’s Own Scathing Critique on Bay of Pigs Declassified -- 2
U.S. Business Explores Cuba -- 2
Cuban Humanitarian Trade Act Gains Momentum -- 3
U.S. to Allow Direct Flights and Some Aid to Cuba -- 3
Pentagon Report: Cuba Poses No Security Threat -- 4
Letter from Miami / Nita Rous Manitzas -- 5
UN Human Rights Commission -- 6
The U.S. Catholic Church Speaks Out -- 6
Bernard Cardinal Law on Cuba -- 7
The Pope’s Visit Through the U.S. Media Lens /Jane Marcus-Delgado -- 9
Up to a Point, Television Did It Better / Sandra Levinson -- 15
The New Yorker Meets Cuba -- 17
Cuban Chic? -- 17

Other Voices
The Pope Came, Saw, and Had an Impact /Richard Hottelet, The Christian Science Monitor -- 14
Freeing Cuba: editorial, The Nation -- 18
The Pope showed people-to-people contact works / editorial, The Miami Herald -- 19
U.S. Chemical Weapons and Cuba / Alex Cockburn, The Nation -- 20

Dateline Havana
Focus On: Pope John Paul II in Cuba -- 21-39
FULL TEXT The Cubans: Believers Without Dogma / Marta Rojas -- 22
The Cuban President Welcomes the Pope -- 26
FULL TEXT A Pope in the Land of the Orishas / Reynaldo González -- 27
Castro’s Farewell Statement -- 36
FULL TEXT And Where Did the Blacks Go? / Pedro Pérez Sarduy -- 36
National Assembly Election Results -- 42

Cuba / Culture
Amelia Peláez’ Mural Goes Up Again / Marta Rojas -- 40
Cuban Artists’ Work Shown in the U.S. / Sandra Levinson -- 43
Obituary
Manuel Piñeiro Dies in Car Crash -- 42
CCS News
Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary -- 44

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