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...visit. "So many people do not even know who the Pope is," says Enrique Lopez Oliva, a professor of religious history at the University of Havana. Is he a President, a businessman? Is Fidel paying him to come? Even many Catholics are ignorant of the papal biography and doctrinal bent. In a country where abortion ends roughly 40% of all pregnancies and copulation begins in early adolescence, Cubans will be shocked by John Paul II's stern views on sex. His reverence for the family will seem odd in a society where illegitimacy is common...
...knows exactly what he's doing," says former federal prosecutor Donald Heller. "This is the ultimate opportunity to take action against society. One man against the Federal Government, the federal judiciary, the FBI, the Department of Justice, creating chaos. What a perfect opportunity for a person with the mind bent of the Unabomber's manifesto...
...contact first." Next, she says she saw "a gold glint or flicker" in his teeth as he said something to one of his companions. (Cousin does have gold caps on his teeth.) She and Gerardi continued walking toward Gerardi's truck. The killer Connie identified as Cousin stopped, bent down and "fiddled" with his boot. (Police were unable to find boots that fit Cousin in his home, and he says he doesn't own any.) Gerardi sent Connie to the passenger's side of the truck and headed toward the driver's side. She looked back to see the killer...
...said she was 10 ft. away. "Shareef, the gun--he was holding his arm with the gun in it," she said in court. "He looked toward me for a few seconds, and I remember thinking he was going to shoot me...I saw that Michael's legs were bent, but he wasn't falling. Shareef was holding him up...I couldn't imagine why he was doing that, and then I realized that he was probably taking his money." Connie ran back into a side door of Port of Call and called 911. Then she went back out into...
Elmore Leonard doesn't spend a lot of effort word-painting backgrounds for his hard-guy capers. You know you're in Detroit or Miami or Hollywood because one of Leonard's sterling villains or slightly bent heroes tells you so. It's a jolt, nevertheless, to find that his latest thriller, Cuba Libre (Delacorte; 343 pages; $23.95), steams into Havana harbor on its first page, and that the shattered mast visible above the water is that of the U.S. battleship Maine, sunk three days earlier...