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...Immigration and Nationalization Service, and on Thursday six of them were released into the custody of relatives in Miami. As long as they don't turn out to have criminal records, they'll be able to apply for permanent residency in a year. Even Cuba's official newspaper, Granma, now acknowledges that what Havana first claimed was a hijacking was, in fact, an escape plan hatched by the pilot...
...will be inclined to quietly process the latest arrivals and let the matter rest. And Havana, too, may be reluctant to turn the case into another confrontation. If, as it now appears, this is simply a case of a group of consenting adults and their children trying to leave Cuba, then it's a no-brainer in the eyes of the U.S. public. And making a fuss might undo the gains Havana made in U.S. public opinion during the Elian showdown. In other words, don't expect to see this case remain in the headlines next week, much less...
...Savon isn't merely a good boxer; he's a heavyweight, which in Cuba makes him the defender of a legacy. When the big men fight for Olympic gold, you can expect to see a Cuban in the ring. The legendary Teofilo Stevenson won three straight Olympic golds (1972, '76 and '80), and Savon is determined to join him in that exclusive corner...
...time--this time is mine," Savon told TIME as his five small children climbed his chiseled 6-ft. 5-in., 201-lb. frame at his Havana home. "I will give everything in my power to win that third gold medal." Savon would probably be fighting for his fourth, if Cuba hadn't boycotted the 1988 Games...
...Savon's address is kept secret to thwart money-waving promoters like Don King. On flights, at hotels and around Havana, though, they find him. Yet he echoes Stevenson (and many Americans, for that matter) when he calls pro boxing "dirty and exploitive." "He is a real asset to Cuba," says Vice President and Cuban Olympic chief Jose Ramon Fernandez. "He is genuine...