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Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who has, according to Hanson, played an integral role in the negotiations, will speak at the conference. Hanson is also expecting Elizabeth Cabraser, an attorney who tried the Castano class action case and David Kentoff, who represents Phillip Morris...
With the announcement last week that Liggett, the smallest of the nation's five major cigarette makers, had agreed to settle the Castano class action in Louisiana on behalf of all smokers and five state Medicaid suits against cigarette makers, the landscape of tobacco litigation underwent a seismic shift. In real dollars, the terms of the agreement--Liggett will wind up paying less than $2 million a year over the next 25 years toward antismoking programs, and will comply with proposed Food and Drug Administration rules about marketing to children--have little bite. Any capitulation, however, marks a drastic change...
...Porras, in order to allow Cruz and his backers to participate in the Nov. 4 elections, which have become an acid test of the Sandinistas' democratic intentions. Opposition forces have argued that they need more time to mount an effective campaign. Cruz and Sandinista Directorate Member Bayardo Arce Castano apparently agreed in Rio to postpone the balloting until Jan. 13. But the deal fell apart, according to some of those at the Rio gathering, when the Sandinistas refused to allow Cruz a three-day delay to consult with his allies in Nicaragua...
Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...week's end the ostensibly irrelevant but to Cuban politicians basically fascinating ransom of $300,000 for Sugar Tycoon Castano was understood to have been paid. In Cuba such major kidnappings are commonly supposed to be the work of patriots who can think of no other way to raise enough money for a revolution. Sexagenarian Castano was finally discovered by soldiers in the suburbs, said no ransom had been paid...