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...large doses. On the other hand, the news that Conversations with Other Women - all 84 minutes of it - was to be shot entirely in split-screen filled me with unreasoning anticipation. It has been done before, but it's always fun to watch someone (in this case director Hans Canosa) pushing an envelope, even one that doesn't entirely aware need a shove...
...that and isn't about to throw in the towel, despite the many setbacks in the Elian debacle. Jorge Mas Santos, the millionaire chairman of the hard-line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there...
...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 for access to Cuba. Suddenly, El Jefe's enemies are the U.S.' enemies...
DIED. JORGE MAS CANOSA, 58, vociferous Castro foe; of lung cancer; in Miami. Canosa trained for the Bay of Pigs invasion but proved fiercer in the halls of Congress, where he lobbied successfully for economic embargoes and the controversial Helms-Burton...
...Like the man he hoped to topple, Mas Canosa led via a fierce personality cult and was accused of being intolerant of dissenting views and potential challengers. ?He was part of the generation that remembers living in Cuba and feels very strongly about Castro,? says Booth. ?Even though there?s some speculation that younger generation exile politicians will be more moderate, I don?t think there will be a fundamental shift in attitude...