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Solidarity, exemplified: the amazing story of the Czechs and the Cubans.(Abroad)

From: National Review  |  Date: 3/14/2005  |  Author: Nordlinger, Jay

'I AM not one of Fidel Castro's favorite people," said Vaclav Havel in February 2001. The millennium is still young, but that should end up one of its greatest understatements. The former Czech president--and still the guiding spirit in that country--is a constant irritant to the Castro dictatorship, even a threat. So is the Czech government at large. Indeed, ordinary Cubans have no better friends than the Czechs, and their relationship makes an amazing story.

That relationship ...

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