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...some months, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...
Baseball is Fidel Castro's thing-along with guitar music and rhetoric. But the Cuban Premier seems willing to try just about anything. Homeward bound from the Soviet Union's 50th-anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Castro's plane stopped for refueling in Newfoundland, so Fidel set out to see the sights of Gander. He tossed a few snowballs, helped a pair of pretty nurses dig their car out of a snowbank, finally decided to try a little tobogganing. Unfortunately the toboggan tipped, sending el máximo lider sprawling into the snow. Everyone guffawed. Even Fidel...
...they sent it and I read it and I thought eccccchh." Barbra Streisand was recalling the script of Up the Sandbox, the just-released film in which she plays a daydreaming housewife who flirts with Fidel Castro and blows up the Statue of Liberty. Barbra soon changed her mind, accepted the part and went off to Kenya to film one of the daydreams. While there she had a blue flower painted on her cheek, put together her own Samburu tribal costume and sat for a chat with an African and his two wives. "How would you like Barbra as your...
...lines because they usually must borrow the money from banks, which charge premium interest rates on such high-risk loans. One company is in financial difficulty because of ransom payments. Southern Airways gave $2,000,000 in November to Havana-bound hijackers, and the cash has been confiscated by Fidel Castro's government. Southern officials will not comment on how seriously they will be hurt if the money is not given back, but the line's balance sheet provides a clue. As of June 30, the carrier, which has not earned a profit in five years, had only...
...million a year), but they were not prepared to give Chile anywhere near the $1.5 million a day in aid that is currently being funneled into Cuba. The reason is simple. Allende, who has strong opposition at home, is considered a far less secure Latin American socialist than is Fidel Castro...