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...lost large holdings - like the De la Camaras, whose patriarch Jose Ignacio was actually locked in a room by Che Guevara in 1960 and forced to sign over the assets of the oil company they co-directed. Today the family is trying to get the Bush Administration to pull the U.S. visas of execs from the European, Canadian and South American oil firms that operate on their property today, hoping to leverage some financial settlement from them. With billions of barrels of potential new Cuban crude reserves being discovered now, that effort has taken on a new urgency...
...have as friendly an ear with the senior analyst Negroponte has in place to oversee a new estimate. He's Tom Fingar, a former State Department intelligence officer, who disagreed with the old pre-war estimates that warned of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Fingar won't pull punches in assessing whether Iraq is slipping toward civil war, a congressional source says, but he'll be fair in his conclusions...
...known anecdotally: that New Orleans may be in the midst of a serious breakdown, both among residents and the health care system needed to treat them. Barbee and his co-authors - psychiatrists Mark Townsend, also of LSUHSC, and Richard Weisler, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - pull together data that, collectively, provide a bleak snapshot of the city?s mental health condition as it approaches the storm's one-year anniversary...
...themselves are saying about his condition." Pentagon and U.S. intelligence officials tell TIME they believe that Castro's operation occurred late last week - perhaps on Thursday or Friday - and that the Cuban government would not have announced the temporary transition arrangement unless it was sure that the dictator would pull through. Castro will have a lengthy convalescing period, these officials believe, during which his brother will have to make decisions and public appearances in his place. "This is a serious dry run of the their succession plan," another U.S. intelligence official says. "And they're looking at how the Cuban...
...package deal may come with a lot of loose ends--and people who want to pull at them. Progress in the Middle East has always started with small steps, compromises with unsavory enemies, ambiguous words that might evaporate or, with luck and hard work, be made to stick. If Hizballah can't be eliminated, whatever chains it can be made to wear must be slipped on slowly, using a lot of hands. That's diplomacy. If the process looks ugly, the alternative can be viewed in the rubble and graveyards of Beirut and Haifa...