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Article: SOVIETS, CUBA EYE NEW ERA.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1991
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Byline: Thomas L. Friedman New York Times
In a historic bid to remove a major obstacle to increased U.S. economic aid, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced Wednesday that his country would begin discussions shortly with President Fidel Castro of Cuba about the withdrawal of the 11,000 Soviet military personnel.
Gorbachev, who announced the decision characterized by Soviet television as "sensational" after a meeting in Moscow with Secretary of State James A. Baker III, also said that in the future, Soviet economic ties with Cuba would be based strictly on free trade. That would eliminate the effective $2 billion-a-year subsidy that Moscow has been ...