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...holiday spirit. It's more likely, however, that he just wants to impress Pope John Paul II, who at the end of January becomes the first pontiff ever to visit this Caribbean island. That's the thinking behind Castro's unprecedented decision to make Christmas an official holiday in Cuba this year...
...place in 1839--the saga of a failed mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship and the series of trials that followed to determine the fate of the slaves on board. A number of parties, including Queen Isabella II of Spain, the Spaniards on board the ship, representatives from Cuba and a pair of British naval officers made claims to ownership of the ship and its cargo of slaves once it turned up on American shores. Abolitionists, here portrayed by Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey, tried to have the slaves set free altogether...
...worse than Kennedy's private infidelities was his public policy. He failed to support fully the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and allowed Fidel Castro to establish a beachhead for communism in the western hemisphere. Kennedy did not act effectively when the Berlin Wall was erected, profoundly affecting the NATO alliance, and he increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The consequences of his misguided policies plagued the U.S. long after his brief, disastrous presidency. RICHARD BLAUW South Holland...
...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...
...history" of the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts previously accepted versions. But he offers almost nothing substantively new, other than an unsupported claim that Kennedy allowed himself to be deceived about Soviet intentions by a private, back-channel Kremlin source and hence delayed sending critical reconnaissance missions over Cuba in the fall of 1962. Hersh's clumsy effort to portray Kennedy's handling of the crisis as reckless and politically motivated is a much inferior version of an intelligent, if controversial, argument Garry Wills presented 15 years ago in The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power. And Hersh's argument...