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Some of these, like Vets2Cuba, have political agendas. Founded five years ago by Vietnam veteran Jim Long, 52, the group has taken nearly 30 vets of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam on weeklong trips over Veterans Day. "We pay homage to a Cuban hero, like Antonio Masseo or Che Guevara, and we have a joint ceremony with Cuban veterans on Nov. 11," says Long, a telecommunications engineer in San Francisco who feels the U.S. should end its "economic blockade" against the country. Manhattan's 92nd Street Y takes largely Jewish-American travelers on excursions to Jewish Havana...
...waive implementation of aspects of the legislation, but it was President Clinton who actually signed Helms-Burton into law. That was in early 1996, shortly after Fidel Castro's air force shot down two unarmed civilian aircraft flown by Miami-based exiles that had been flying propaganda missions into Cuban airspace - and Mr. Clinton saw Florida as one of the critical battleground states in that year's reelection campaign. The legislation will make life difficult for President Bush, too, of course, because it transformed the Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force...
Guerrilla marketing is to be expected from MARK CUBAN. Last year, in a bid for publicity, the Dallas Mavericks' owner not only hired DENNIS RODMAN but offered him free lodging at his own guesthouse. But surely the NBA didn't anticipate that Cuban would be downright ecstatic about the $250,000 fine officials imposed for his antics during the Mavs' loss to Detroit last week. "I think it's great," said Cuban, the billionaire co-founder of Broadcast.com who bought the team last year. Cuban was reprimanded for a public scolding of game referees. "There is no way we could...
...Bruce Greenwood, a little-known Canadian actor, has made something remarkable out of this poisoned plum. His J.F.K., in the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama Thirteen Days, quickly moves beyond physical and vocal impersonation to find a harried man in extremis--a young man surrounded by "knowledgeable" cold warriors who have little faith in him. His only rudder is a root belief that America ought not to stumble into an annihilating war with the Soviet Union. From this belief, and Greenwood's craft, a hero emerges...
JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1961 THEME "World Peace Through New Frontiers" REALITY Cuban missile crisis; Berlin Wall built...