Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roselli described how he and his longtime mentor, onetime Chicago Mafia Chief Momo Salvatore ("Sam") Giancana, had been recruited by the CIA in the early '60s to assassinate Fidel Castro. It made a kind of amoral sense for the agency to turn to the Mob: when the Cuban leader took power, he closed down the Mafia's big moneymaking operations in Havana; Roselli had been running the swank Sans Souci gambling casino there. Roselli told the Senators that he also saw the killing of Castro as a "patriotic" endeavor, something he could do for his country. Both poisoned...
...night of Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, where it had gone to protect American lives during the Cuban revolt against Spanish rule. Out of 354 men aboard the Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later...
...Rick Wohlhuter thought the muscular Cuban had played right into his hands by speeding up the race when there were still 400 meters to go. But when Wohlhuter, usually a consummate 800 strategist, tried to overtake him as they turned into the final stretch, Juantorena just kept pouring it on. Wohlhuter fell back to third place in fatigue, his face contorted with pain and defeat as Juantorena muscled across the finish line and then skipped on in celebration...
HURLY SUBMITS to the consequent pressure of public opinion, sends the weapons, and a Cuban missile crisis in reverse occurs in the Mediterranean. Canfield mounts almost unanimous congressional and cabinet support for a face-off with the Ruskies, and then suddenly evidence comes to light involving the V.P. in a scandal-to-end-all-scandals. This evidence centers around the title's 'Canfield Decision,' the V.P.'s decision to be co-opted by murderers and to participate indirectly in other criminal actions. I won't give that part away because, in part, the suspense works, and also because...
...there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...