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Suddenly there was a knock on Jimmy Carter's suite at his hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, interrupting his scheduled interview with Flora Lewis of the New York Times. It was a member of Fidel Castro's entourage telling Carter's advisor, Robert Pastor, that the Cuban dictator was even then walking down from his suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would...
...only Nowitzki. The Mavericks, perennial losers in recent years, have turned success story with a veritable UN of hoopsters assembled by deep-pocketed new owner Mark Cuban. Point guard Steve Nash, acquired in 1998 along with Nowitzki, is a Canadian citizen born in South Africa, center Wang Zhizhi - known as the Slinging Beijingian - is Chinese, and rounding out the roster is Eduardo Najera, from Mexico, and Tariq Abdul-Wahad from France...
...Dallas owner Cuban (alas, he's not) explained his international tastes to Sports Illustrated thusly: "Having players that are national heroes adds quite a bit to the team," he said. "Having a whole country counting on you to represent them and win is a whole lot more pressure than an NBA playoff game...
...should also be noted that Cuba, China and the Sudan all have seats on the U.N.’s main human rights body. When one considers the realities of Cuban political dissidents rotting in decrepit, inhuman prison cells, Chinese religious minorities suffering harsh persecution by Beijing and Sudanese women and children being sold into chattel slavery, it becomes difficult to accord the commission any real credibility...
...their tassels.” On a more serious note, Player also noticed that many of the guests were uneasy with her diverse group of guests. “I was the oddball,” she says. “My roommate is Puerto Rican, my boyfriend is Cuban and one of my best friends is Indian. That was huge...