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John and Fidel Castro too are betting that the customs hassles and permits required for travel to Cuba will become a thing of the past, perhaps as early as 2005, a change Cuban tourism officials believe will bring more than 1 million U.S. turistas to the island each year. This confidence is based on the burgeoning bipartisan support Congress has shown this fall for lifting altogether the ban on travel to Cuba. The Bush Administration has been able to stall that effort for now--and as of Jan. 1 will outlaw exchange tours like John's in order to tighten...
...Cuban officials concerned that an American influx would mean a quick end to the Castro era. Says Rafael Dausa, head of the Cuban Foreign Ministry's U.S. relations office: "An invasion of Americans will not destroy our revolution. We're here because of the strength of our ideas." If anyone's views are changed by the meeting of the two peoples, he believes, it will be the Americans'. "They'll find out we don't have horns or eat children," he says...
DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film...
...President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show a President who was vital, decisive and often vulgar. But it plays the audio over goofy re-enactment scenes using a look-alike, as if viewers are too dim to imagine one of history's most famous leaders...
Fittingly, in the end, the two competitors each came up with five unique words, all of three or four letters. The final score was 5 to 5, and unfortunately, no bragging rights were awarded. “[The Boggle match] was much like the Cuban Missile Crisis—except without the missiles, danger of global annihilation or Castro, and it happened in Cambridge,” says Aguilar. However, both presidents can report back to their clubs that they demonstrated some board game entrepreneurship, if not a downright willingness to cheat, in their quest for Boggle glory...