Word: cuba
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...through Mexico by car and then took a bus to Miami. But it is widely believed that a friend may have smuggled him into Miami by boat. The federal magistrate reviewing his case noted in court documents that the 78-year-old is a native and citizen of Cuba, as well as a naturalized citizen of Venezuela and that his "case reads like one of Robert Ludlum's espionage thrillers, with all the plot twists and turns Ludlum is famous...
...Jolicoeur wrote to Posada in a report obtained by TIME, explaining why the government sought to continue his detention. Jolicoeur pointed out that Posada's own statements to a reporter (which he later dismissed as a language misunderstanding) linked him to a series of hotel and restaurant bombings in Cuba...
...Posada is now, much to the U.S. Government's dismay, a man without a country. Since his arrest last year, officials in seven countries - Canada, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala - all have told him to forget about moving to their homeland. The notable exceptions were Cuba and its ally Venezuela, which both said they would welcome him. But the court previously found those countries likely would torture him. So the U.S. has found itself in the uncomfortable position of not having a place to deport Posada, but no longer being constitutionally able to extend - or willing...
...masculine look for women when she appeared in Morocco in 1930 and sang Give Me the Man. These days, it's Giorgio Armani's job to keep the tuxedo?now a black-tie staple for both men and women, thanks to the Italian tastemaker?au courant. Guys like Cuba Gooding Jr., Ben Affleck and Sean Penn are obvious fans. But it took the more outlaw style of Russell Crowe to update this classic menswear look with a ribbon tie and longer tails in 2001. Jodie Foster wore a crystal beaded version to the Oscars in 1991, and Woody Harrelson ordered...
Which may help explain why the White House so excitedly trumpeted Bush's announcement last week that the Administration was transferring 14 high-profile al-Qaeda terrorists to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Bush had to acknowledge that the 14 had been held in secret CIA facilities in undisclosed locations, a fact that had been reported and had generated international controversy. But the value for the Administration in bringing these men into the light was to remind Americans of the very real enemies they face...