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Still, Castro is so eager for Americans to loosen the embargo that he personally managed the details of our encounter with him--including a stand-up buffet after his press conference so he could stroll around and work his charisma on each of his guests. At the reception he drank martinis, ate oysters, praised the Pope's sincerity and talked motorcycles. But old habits die hard: the next day, one of the dissidents scheduled to have lunch with us received an anonymous death threat under her door. She joined us anyway...
...about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away/ For he drank like a fish." After the explosion: "How culpable was he/ That last night when he broke/ Our tribe's complicity?" The question is both wrenching and outside the parameters of normal political debate. Death and suffering cannot be countered by polemics; the best thing to be said--a fair definition...
Mickey Sabbath could have been Big Bird. Instead he is spending his closing years in rural Massachusetts nursing resentments and his ragged individualism. His sole and meager support comes from his wife Roseanna, an Alcoholics Anonymous member who nearly drank herself to death for typically Rothian reasons: "because of all that had not happened and because of all that had." Chief among them were Sabbath's neglect and his affair with Drenka Balich, the lusty wife of the local Croatian innkeeper...
...dusty convoy of military Land Rovers bounced over an unfenced sector of Jordan's border escorting Mercedes-borne worthies who turned out to be the presidential kinsmen. Exhausted and parched, the travelers had made a 14-hour desert trek to evade detection. Water was their first request. "They drank tens of bottles," related a high Jordanian security official. Though the inadequately provisioned party had seemingly departed on the run, the journey was not quite spontaneous. The Jordanian official said Hussein Kamel had visited Amman 10 days earlier to warn of his coming. According to another security officer, U.S. agents...
...that was not in his nature. "You're out there on the edge," Kesey says, "where it's beyond dangerous to your life--it's dangerous to your soul. And Garcia was on that edge for 30 years. It's like when the King asked Mozart why he drank so much, and Wolfgang said, 'Rock 'n' roll is hot, dry work.' Who are we to argue with such an artist? It's like arguing with Picasso because he was horny...