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Lying some 60 miles off the southwest coast of Cuba, the lush island-formerly known as the Isle of Pines-is swept by breezes scented by countless pine trees and grapefruit groves. The island has an unsavory past: before Castro's revolution it housed the Presidio, one of the most brutal prisons in the Western Hemisphere. Castro was incarcerated there for 20 months...
...have been a native Montrealer for 24 winters, and this is the first time I can remember not having snow on the ground in the middle of January. I loved it. At least I thought I loved it, till I read John Skew's article. He made me pine for the white stuff...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
...become competitive almost overnight. Now Chile is shipping refrigerators to Argentina, shoes to Peru and logs to Japan. In the process, the country is transforming itself from a "monoproduct" economy into one in which noncopper goods are now 51% of exports. Forests are being planted with high-yield pine trees; U.S. authorities estimate that by 1990 forest products could become as important as copper to the economy...
...Walt Disney World, which lay just across a grimy interstate. Outside the hotel where the happening occurred, giant hot-air balloons wafted under a blazing autumn sun. Dixieland bands strutted down walkways, and characters in Indian headdresses, space-shuttle caps and Abe Lincoln garb wandered about. Under an Australian pine by a swimming pool, a stocky old gentleman in a rumpled blue suit discoursed on farm policy. He said his name was Harold Stassen and he was once again running for President...