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Radio 4,23 Jan 1998,15 mins

Cuba after the fall of the USSR

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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Considering Cuba's remarkable economic survival after the loss of Soviet support, the history of US-Cuban relations, and a visit to the island by Pope John Paul II.

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