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Article: Lining up to cover Cuba: CNN is first - and not everyone is pleased.
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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In a world where Americans learn intimate details about religious upheavals in Afghanistan and follow the smallest gyrations in Japanese stock markets, Cuba, ninety miles off Florida, remains a relative mystery.
Is Castro's economy improving or declining? What kind of education and medical care do Cuban children get? How has this clever dictator managed to last through the terms of eight U.S. presidents, all eager to depose him?
Maybe we'll soon have some answers to these questions from the American media. About the time you read this, CNN plans to open the first U.S. news bureau in Cuba since 1969, when The Associated Press was kicked out. It intends to station ...
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......research program with Iran. The scientists told Carter that Cuba has no relationship with Libya. Carter said his hope and . . . presumption was that Cuba would be very intensely concentrated on preventing any illicit...technologies. Carter said he hoped the United States and Cuba would cooperate closely ...
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