Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More Cubans could play here, of course, if the U.S. relaxed its embargo. Demonstrating outside Camden Yards, Ernest Mailhot, of the small Miami Coalition to End the Embargo, hoped that "through the players, Americans can see the Cuban people instead of Fidel...
...understand how, it helps to know two facts familiar to every Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...
...Jackson appealed to Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad to release a Navy pilot that had been shot down over Lebanon. A few months later he went to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and arrange for the liberation of prison inmates. In the months preceding the Gulf War he met with Saddam Hussein to negotiate the release of foreigners being held there. In all these cases, his success in aiding the individuals in need must be appreciated. But at what cost are such victories...
...which do you believe? Most of us would pick the American media. Yugoslavia was ranked among the most repressive countries in the world for journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, along with Fidel Castro of Cuba and Jiang Zemin of China, tops a list of enemies of the free press released by the committee Monday. Milosevic has been notoriously intolerant of independent journalists, both foreign and Yugoslavian. As for Tanjug, it operates out of something called the Ministry of Information, whose sinister, Orwellian name doesn't inspire much confidence in its objectivity...
...Felix Savon had not already convinced you that a Cuban can throw a punch with the best of them, you must have missed Round 2 of the set-to between the Baltimore Orioles and Fidel Castro's Caribbean fiefdom...