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...course, a disaster. The strategic concept was faulty, the tactics worse, the forces and weapons inadequate, the intelligence abysmally off the mark. The idea was that between 1,400 and 1,500 Cuban exiles bolstered by U.S. training and equipment would march triumphantly from the Bay of Pigs into Havana where the people would rise against Castro. If that did not happen, the force was to slip into the mountains and launch guerrilla warfare. Instead they were captured by Cuba's 20,000 troops, leaving Castro to stand even taller astride his small world...
...humiliated Kennedy wondered what happened. Arrogance for one thing. I recall being at a party the night before the invasion at Hickory Hill, Bobby Kennedy's Virginia estate. "Do you have any correspondents in Havana?" he asked me before leading me to a quiet part of his living room. I assured him that we did. He was wedged into the corner, and as he talked he slid down to escape the party's babble until we were both seated on the floor. "There is going to be a big story there tomorrow," he said. "It is going to be dangerous...
...Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama which opened in December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana, had a screening of it and smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, and according to one eyewitness, is “touring Havana incognito. Many people say he is going round Havana undercover, and is interested in seeing a game of baseball or, maybe like Hemingway, going fishing...
...danger for the pharmaceutical industry, of course, is that the battle over AIDS drugs has fashioned a new solidarity among Third World governments, which, despite their capitalist orientation, seek to challenge the terms of trade with the industrialized world. And that's a battle the Quixotic old warrior in Havana is only too willing to join...
...Louis Reilly, who had heard all sorts of things about Cuba and wanted to make up his own mind. "I've been curious about the culture for years," says Reilly, a retired lawyer who celebrated his 70th birthday in Pinar del Rio, a city about 80 miles southwest of Havana. "The fact that it was out of bounds to American travelers whetted my appetite. The warmth of the people, their music and their pride in achievement disabused me of any preconceived notions I may have had. I'd encourage people of all ages to visit the island; each...