-DATE- 19930401 -YEAR- 1993 -DOCUMENT TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- Official Does Not Rule Out U.S. Military Intervention -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Vienna DER STANDARD -REPORT NO.- FBIS-LAT-93-061 -REPORT DATE- 19930401 -HEADER- ======================================================================= Report Type: Daily report AFS Number: AU0104133493 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-93-061 Report Date: 01 Apr 93 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 1 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 1 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: German Document Date: 01 Apr 93 Report Volume: Thursday Vol VI No 061 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Vienna DER STANDARD Report Name: Latin America Headline: Official Does Not Rule Out U.S. Military Intervention Source Line: AU0104133493 Vienna DER STANDARD in German 1 Apr 93 p 2 Subslug: [Christof Parnreiter report: ``Fidel Castro's Cautious Renewal''] -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Christof Parnreiter report: ``Fidel Castro's Cautious Renewal''] 2. [Text] Havana-With the nomination of the leader of the Communist Youth of Cuba, Roberto Robaina (37), as new foreign minister, state and party leader Fidel Castro apparently made a cautious step toward a less dogmatic policy. 3. Apart from Robaina, economic expert and Vice President Carlos Lage and Ricardo Alarcon, former foreign minister and current parliamentary president, also belong to the ``new generation'' that tends toward a pragmatic policy. 4. Just like Alarcon (56), Robaina has repeatedly confirmed his readiness for dialogue with the United States-on the basis that Washington gives up its blockade policy. In that case, ``a great deal would undoubtedly change'' in Cuba, Alarcon stated in an interview with DER STANDARD correspondent Christof Parnreiter in Havana. ``We would no longer view anybody as a U.S. agent, for example, because agents would no longer exist.'' 5. Alarcon rejected the most recent allegations by the UN Human Rights Commission against Cuba: ``This report mentions 51 cases, but the reproaches are unfounded.'' Only people who violate the laws are prosecuted in Cuba, and there are no restrictions concerning trips abroad, Alarcon claimed in spite of the fact that Cubans are trying to escape to the United States every week with the most adventurous water vehicles. ``Everybody who wants to leave can leave. Yet the United States and Europe build walls against the refugees.'' 6. Despite the change of power in Washington, the danger of a military intervention might even increase in the next few years. ``If the United States cannot eliminate us with a blockade, it might be tempted to view an invasion as a last resort. However, the abolition of a government is not involved here, but rather the elimination of a social project. The U.S. Army would have to fight against numerous people.'' However, Alarcon also tries to dash the hopes of some members of the opposition who believe that the end of the blockade might destroy the cohesion among the Cuban regime: ``We are not afraid of that. Why does the United States not test that and suspend the blockade for one year to see what will happen?'' -END-