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Zelikow, who was an arms control negotiator for the State Department before he came to Harvard, has been working on a book compiling many of the Oval Office tapes made during the administrations of John F. Kennedy '40 and Lyndon B. Johnson, including the discussions about the Cuban Missle Crisis...
...tapes may finally provide an explanation. "He very often seems to us to be smartest person in the room," he says. "The Cuban Missile crisis were the finest hours of JFK is public life...
...side door? A growing number of U.S. hoteliers, including Days Inn and Choice Hotels International, owner of Comfort Inn, as well as U.S. investment banks have spotted an opening in the form of joint ventures with foreign companies. They are tiptoeing through it to secure a foothold in a Cuban tourism industry that continues to grow without an American presence...
This year 1.2 million visitors--mostly Canadians, Italians and Latin Americans--are expected to drop about $1.3 billion on the island, which offers the requisite capitalist vices of beautiful beaches, discos and even golf. There are also a surprising number of Americans, whom Cuban officials wave in through Mexico or Jamaica--no need to get your passport stamped. Even after years of steady growth, the number of vacationers continues to increase 15% annually, the fastest pace in the Caribbean. Tourism has replaced sugar as Cuba's main source of hard currency. That is one reason tourist hotels were the targets...
...elude capture. "He may have shaved all of his body hair to enhance this appearance," said a spokesman. Cunanan was fingered as a possible suspect in two other murders in the Miami area. He has been ruled out as a suspect in the killing of Silvio Alfonso, 44, a Cuban-born physician whose body was found on Thursday in Miami Springs. But police are still investigating whether Cunanan may have been connected to the murder of a gay man, Casey Patrick Sigler, 41, who was beaten to death in his apartment on May 12. Neighbors say he came home that...