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Ellroy sends these three rogue enforcers off on a bizarre fictionalized trek through five years of U.S. history: the pursuit of Hoffa, the Mob's unhappiness over the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the loss of the Havana casino revenues, the 1960 presidential campaign, the long debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Pete, Kemper and Ward play hair-raising roles in all of this, and much more besides...
...Edgar Hoover, the Cuban leader ran his own tests to determine whether it was possible for one man using a rifle with a telescopic sight to have killed the American president. An FBI informant told Hoover that Castro speculated that "it took about three people" to do the deed. Cuba has insisted that the CIA was behind the plot. ButTIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays the news won't change many minds in the U.S. "It sounds like a defensive maneuver on Castro's part," Nelan says. "If you did it, you would do something to make it seem that...
...clashes with its hostility toward Iran. On the one hand, the Commerce Department under Clinton has helped U.S. companies sign billions of dollars' worth of contracts with foreign countries. On the other hand, the U.S. government remains deeply suspicious of Iran, which is one of the countries--along with Cuba, North Korea and Iraq--with whom the U.S. restricts trade...
...international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...
...Cubans could read TIME freely, they would be shocked to learn that their great leader jokes about shooting a dedicated worker or about prostitution not being a way of solving Cuba's unemployment crisis. The once remarkable health-care system is a shambles; visitors regularly carry suitcases of even the most common medications to the island. And the proposal to increase the price of alcohol and cigarettes is yet another insult, since these ``luxuries'' are the only escape enjoyed by the people of Castro's Cuba...