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...CHUCHO VALDES Bele Bele en La Habana (Blue Note) A native of Cuba, this fleet-fingered performer is one of the world's finest pianists. Mixing jazz with traditional Afro-Cuban musical forms such as son, danzon and mambo, he creates ferociously cerebral songs that break boundaries, cross oceans and are too spirited for any embargo to contain...
DIED. DANTE FASCELL, 81, powerful South Florida Congressman and longtime Foreign Affairs Committee chairman; in Clearwater, Fla. Serving from 1955 to 1992, Fascell steered U.S. policy into hard-line stances against Cuba and Central America...
Onlooker Joseph A. Rodriguez, who was born in Cuba but had not witnessed a bembe since childhood, said it was a particularly emotional event...
Eventually, a deal was reached that included deportation--Luciano had never become a citizen--and he was sent to Italy in February 1946. He surfaced months later in sunny, pre-Castro Cuba. Lansky, Sinatra and other pals paid visits--so many, in fact, that the press took note, and in February 1947 the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics learned of Luciano's reappearance in the Americas. U.S. authorities claimed that he planned to headquarter a worldwide drug-smuggling operation in Cuba. Lucky was again packed off to Italy...
...which won the first U.S. airmail contract, between New York City and Boston. That same crowd liked to play in the Caribbean (excellent choice), where he created Pan American Airways Inc. from a merger of three groups. Trippe began service with a flight from Key West, Fla., to Havana, Cuba...