Word: fidel
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...American troops now stationed at Guantanamo.) That's not the only reason, McAllister adds: Clinton, ever mindful of Florida's 25 electoral votes, has been working both to appease the Cuban-American lobby and to solve the refugee problem without giving too much of a boost toCuban President Fidel Castro. Today's solution "should be seen as part of Clinton's campaign to contain andplease the Cuban Americans," McAllister says...
...George Bush was chosen to head up "Phase II," the planned invasion of Cuba. Lee Harvey Oswald was to be gunned down in the Texas School Book Depository Building, or at several alternative sites, and then the American public was to be told via television that Cuban leader Fidel Castro had sent Oswald to murder Kennedy. This would supposedly inflame the public, who would demand instant invasion of Cuba. George Bush had conveniently placed nearly 100 U.S. Navy ships close to the Cuban shores all the way around the island. If the plot had come off as planned, the Soviets...
...totaling $1 million. Whatever the motivation, the incident was the latest evidence that despite decades of fighting and negotiating, the Philippines, with a mostly Christian population of 66 million, has still to solve the problem of separatism among its 6 million Muslims. Two days after the Ipil raid, President Fidel Ramos fired the leader of the army's southern command, Brigadier General Regino Lacson, as well as the commander of the 102nd Infantry Brigade, near Ipil. At week's end Ramos flew to the town to survey the damage. After meeting with town and military officials, he barked...
Ellroy sends these three rogue enforcers off on a bizarre fictionalized trek through five years of U.S. history: the pursuit of Hoffa, the Mob's unhappiness over the triumph of Fidel Castro in Cuba and the loss of the Havana casino revenues, the 1960 presidential campaign, the long debacle of the Bay of Pigs. Pete, Kemper and Ward play hair-raising roles in all of this, and much more besides...
President Kennedy's assassination, it turns out, was investigated not only by the Warren Commission but also by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. According to newly released FBI documents, Castro staged his own tests shortly after the murder to determine if one person could have fired three shots in rapid succession to kill Kennedy. His conclusion: multiple gunmen...