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...true, the made-in-Hollywood plot is sure to go down in history next to the legendary CIA bid to blow up Castro with an exploding cigar. Can Arafat confirm it? Not likely -- the Palestinian leader has seen way too much skullduggery in his time for this to stick out. "There were several attempts to assassinate him," says a PLO security aide, "but I don't recall an incident with a radio...
MIAMI: Nearly a year ago, the Coast Guard pulled over a boat filled with Cuban expatriates headed to Venezuela, where Fidel Castro was soon to visit. Their mission: To assassinate El Jefe, according to law enforcement officials. Thirty years ago, the suspects would probably have been on the CIA's payroll -- or could at least have counted on the U.S. to look the other way. But on Tuesday, the seven men -- including a prominent member of the Cuban American National Foundation, a once-powerful anti-Castro lobby -- were indicted. They face life imprisonment. For Castro's enemies, the times certainly...
...Quietly, behind the scenes, the U.S. has been moving closer toward Cuba," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tammerlin Drummond. "Castro's enemies in the U.S. are getting weaker." Drummond notes that the Cuban American National Foundation has funneled thousands of dollars to Senators such as Jesse Helms and has been instrumental in lobbying for an anti-Castro policy. But the death last year of its imposing leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, was a critical blow to the group. Since then, the Pope has visited Havana, President Clinton has declawed the Helms-Burton sanctions and influential U.S. businesses have been lobbying furiously...
...born would himself have been 17 years old when the Civil War began. Then too, there are the people who saw Glenn's first flight who either will or won't be here for the second. Khrushchev, Kennedy, Johnson, Mao Zedong--all towering figures in 1962, all dust now. Castro--communism's beachhead in the West then, old and isolated now. Queen Elizabeth--young and remote monarch then, old and remote monarch...
...contemplate the situation I took myself out to the (kosher) McDonald's. Over my Big Mac, across the shopping center from the Laser Center (spelled in awkward Hebrew) and above the Castro clothing store (named after either the district of San Francisco or the Cuban dictator or both, given the number of red dresses), I wondered why Israel is populated with so many things American. One potential answer is the most superficial: people speak English here as their second language, as a way to travel the world and to serve their own tourists. The seeping of American foods and names...