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Kennedy shattered those illusions. He did it with a series of dramatic decisions that swiftly brought the U.S. to a showdown not with Fidel Castro but with Khrushchev's own Soviet Union...
...what he calls "turbulence." By 19 he had married. By 20 he had fathered a child and would soon be divorced. (He has been married for nine years to his fourth wife, poet Chase Twichell.) He had written a novel, not published, and had run off to fight for Castro (not quite getting there; instead dressing mannequins for a department store in Lakeland, Fla.). Before this, at 16, he had stolen a car and Kerouacked off to California. Earlier still, he had learned to keep his head down; his father, a wife-beating alcoholic who "pretty much abandoned the family...
...moon had exploded, the stock market had crashed and Saddam Hussein had assassinated Castro and kidnapped the Pope, nobody would be aware of it. The domination of the news by the Clinton scandal was total. Maybe special prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Lewinsky's pal Linda Tripp will finally satisfy Americans' insatiable thirst for titillation and dirt. The name Tripp will surely live in infamy and replace Brutus as the archetypal betrayer. NORMAN GRONWOLD Norcross, Minn...
...John Paul II likened his pilgrimage to his first trip back to his native Poland. We can only hope the Cubans who have endured communism for 39 years will eventually experience the same positive results the Poles did. If history repeats itself and Cuba follows the example of Poland, Castro's evil empire will also fall. STEPHEN HILLEY Fort Lauderdale...
Putting "their faiths to the test" might be an appropriate comparison in the religious realm but hardly in the secular vs. the religious. Castro and Marxism have failed miserably, a demonstrable fact. I am a believer in an omniscient and loving God, as is John Paul II, but I can't prove I'm right. Nor can the Pope--that's faith. And as you pointed out, "the Catholic Church will survive the death of the 264th Pope," while few believe the Cuban revolution will outlive Castro. ROBERT F. MORAN Methuen, Mass...