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Immigration lawyer Magda Monteil-Davis, who arrived from Cuba in 1961 at the age of eight and lost a race for Congress two years ago, thinks that punishing poor Cubans and those who leave will not bring down Castro. She vents much of her anger at Clinton's crackdown on fellow exiles, who she charges are out of touch with the situation in Cuba. "Most of the Cubans in Miami came out during the 1960s. And the younger ones have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What...
Only one principle still unites Miami's largest ethnic community: the need for Castro to go, and even that bedrock article of faith provokes disputes. "I've been hearing rumors that Castro was about to leave since I was a little girl," scoffs Monteil-Davis, "and every one of them was based on absolutely reliable information. It's a myth that is self-perpetuating." Garcia Fuste, on the other hand, senses the beginning of the end. "People are waking up with nothing to eat, nothing to do but blame Castro," he says. "I'm sure that this is the finish...
...fashion world thrives on small controversies; last week's was over skirt length. To some retailers, some of the BigSkirts looked like a secondhand midi of a few seasons back. That calf-length style was a fiasco. Said Sara Monteil, a buyer for Continental Purchasing Co.: "American buyers remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident...
...kindle this new enthusiasm, rising young newspaperman Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, publisher of the intellectual magazine L'Express, began a series of informal diners du travail. Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's bright young lieutenant, came, so did young MRPers of Bidault's party like André Monteil and Robert Buron, and Socialists like Robert Lacoste and Gaston Defferre. Says Servan-Schreiber: "First, we had to get a sounding board for Mendès. With his isolation in Parliament, he made brilliant speeches but there was no political echo. Secondly, he had always worked alone. He didn...
...build morale. . . . It won't help a fighting man. . . . It won't help preserve our way of life. . . . All Monteil's fine lipstick will do is to make you look prettier. If it's Victory you want . . . BETTER BUY BONDS...