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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...
...Fidel Castro, long suspected of possible complicity in the assassination of President Kennedy, is apparently a conspiracy buff himself. Just seven months after the November, 1963 shooting in Dallas, according to a newly-declassified letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the Cuban leader ran his own tests to determine whether it was possible for one man using a rifle with a telescopic sight to have killed the American president. An FBI informant told Hoover that Castro speculated that "it took about three people" to do the deed. Cuba has insisted that the CIA was behind the plot. ButTIME senior...
...FIDEL CASTRO Makes his first ever state visit to Paris (sure beats Managua...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in a new bid for international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...
...economic and cultural ties ensure that, despite noticeable differences--witness Fidel Castro's warm reception in Paris and Gerry Adams' fundraising efforts in Washington--Western Europe still houses our staunchest allies. As the Gulf War proved, the Western allies must be ready to handle "out-of-area" problems that will arise to challenge this new world order...