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<text id=89TT1654>
<title>
June 26, 1989: World Notes:Cuba
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 46
World Notes
CUBA
Thinning Out the Ranks
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<p> It was the equivalent of arresting Dwight Eisenhower in the
wake of the Normandy invasion. Last week Cuba announced that Army
General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, a hero of the revolution and former
top commander of Cuban forces in Ethiopia and Angola, had been
arrested for drug trafficking and corruption. Ochoa, said the
Communist Party paper Granma, had "reached agreements" with drug
smugglers "near our territory." In addition, six other military
officers were similarly arrested.
</p>
<p> What was going on? Some observers believed that President Fidel
Castro was conducting one of his periodic political purges, weeding
out officers suspected of disloyalty. Others thought he was finally
acknowledging what the U.S. has long charged: that high-ranking
members of Castro's government are up to their necks in allowing
Cuba to become a transshipment point for U.S.-bound cocaine.
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</body></article>
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