Word: fidel
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With his studied style, Roberto Robaina Gonzalez looks more like a manager of a rock band than a Marxist model. Yet Robaina, at 37, exemplifies the new face of Cuba. Two months ago, Fidel Castro surprised Havana by picking the man he affectionately calls Robertico, a math teacher who speaks only Spanish, as Foreign Minister. U.S. diplomats dismissed him as "dynamic but dumb." Havana's bureaucrats were speechless: in his previous job as head of the Union of Communist Youth, Robaina had wooed the young with discos and salsa music -- and those T shirts. Even Fidel had a public laugh...
...Castro's Cabinet have been filled with young comers. The economic czar is another bike-riding yummie, Carlos Lage Davila, a 41-year-old pediatrician who is credited with designing Cuba's aggressive new policy to attract foreign investment. He may be the most important man in Cuba after Fidel and his brother Raul. A 28-year-old mechanical engineer, Felipe Perez Roque, serves as Castro's informal chief of staff...
...federal drug bust known as Operation Swordfish, briefly summarized, reads like an episode of Miami Vice scripted by John le Carre. It began in December 1980 in Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike demeanor inspired trust...
Powell is not the first Commencement speaker whose views members of the Harvard community find objectionable. What about when Fidel Castro spoke at Commencement in the early '60s? While the ban is offensive to many, "offensiveness" is an unacceptable criterion for a speaker's acceptance or rejection...
...novel provides a chronicle of life in America from 1898 to the present and beyond (one of the sisters, a psychic, predicts the cancer-caused death of Fidel Castro in 1995) Hijuelos displays the inventive and playful quality that surfaced in Mambo Kings, which incorporated Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Here, he manages to work in everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and jimmy Carter to Error Flynn and Noel Coward...