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...nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." The President singled out as assailants the governments of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. Strikingly absent from the list was any mention of Syria, a frequent U.S. nemesis...
...played a decisive role in the 1956 crisis in Suez, in calling Khrushchev's bluff and keeping him out of that area. It also played a decisive role in 1959 in Berlin, when Khrushchev was threatening to pull out of the Four-Power pact. It played a role in Cuba, of course, but a different kind of role, because that was when everything, including the presidency, changed. I'll come to that...
...Each bar was 15 in. long and tipped the scales at about 70 lbs. Divers also found the archetypal treasures of a shipwreck: wooden chests spilling over with coins. According to McHaley, the Atocha's inventory includes more than 1,000 silver bars, which were bound for Spain from Cuba and other New World colonies in 1622, when the ship sank in a hurricane's high winds and raging seas. Estimates of the worth of the booty range as high as $400 million. Some local skeptics disagree with this giddy estimate, but, says one, "no one can say that this...
...expect to pay for Bacardi. No word yet on whether 10 Cane will reach Europe, but rum is one of the world's best-selling spirits, with annual sales in the U.S. of about $4.6 billion. And Europeans have shown a thirst for quality rum, especially Havana Club, the Cuba-produced tipple that's been the fastest-growing brand in recent years for another French firm, Pernod Ricard. (That company also said last week that it was making a $10 billion pitch, along with Fortune Brands, for the England-based Allied Domecq.) The only loser might be Coca-Cola...
...been to the Soviet Union several times because of the Goodwill Games. [Mikhail] Gorbachev is my buddy and so is [Fidel] Castro. I've been to Cuba two times. We go hunting and fishing together...