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...York's disenfranchised: the criminals, the junkies, the prostitutes, the runaways, the hipsters; he hoped to build a coalition between them and the artists, writers, and intellectuals of his own set." To kick off his campaign, Mailer wrote an open letter to Fidel Castro, praising the Cuban Revolution and asking Castro to request that Hemingway return to Cuba. Mailer finally started to come apart at the seams during his campaign. He struck his sister Barbara across the face in an argument, breaking her glasses. After an evening of drunkeness and ill-humor, Mailer stabbed his wife twice, narrowly missing...
Nevertheless, yesterday marked the four-year anniversary of a tragedy that may be but a blur, if even that, in the mental landscapes of many people. On February 24, 1996, at 3:21 p.m., two unarmed civilian planes were shot down by Cuban MiG's in international water space over the Florida Straits. The four pilots, three American citizens and one legal alien, were members of a humanitarian group called Brothers to the Rescue. In more than 1,800 missions over the last nine years, the group has assisted the Coast Guard in locating desperate refugees and saving them from...
...Four years ago, Armando Alejandre Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario de la Pea, Pablo Morales, along with Jose Basulto, the group's leader, set out for a typical search and rescue mission. But only Basulto's plane would return. As reported on the Brothers' website (), the planes "identified themselves with Cuban radar control as was customary and continued to radio their position to Havana tower periodically throughout the flight...
...tensest moment in John F. Kennedyis administration was brought on by Hollywood, not Mother Russia. Encroached upon by Marilyn Monroe, JFK found that he had a Cuban Missile Crisis...in his pants...
...roller coaster of U.S.-Cuban relations took a sharp dip Thursday with the arrest of a top Immigration and Naturalization Service official accused of spying for Havana. Cuban-born Mariano Faget, one of the most prominent INS agents in Southern Florida, is accused of relaying U.S. defense secrets to Cuba and of helping Cuban spies infiltrate American borders. The FBI got wind of Faget's activities when a surveillance investigation called Operation False Blue allegedly found him engaged in unauthorized correspondence with Cuban intelligence officials. The bureau then set up a sting in which American agents told Faget...