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...cereals are virtually nonexistent; the monthly rice ration is 5 Ibs. per person. Russian shoes cost $90 and polo shirts $40, with such clothing considered luxury items in a society where the average salary is $100 a month."They are taking milk away from seven-year-olds," said Ramon Leiva, 33, a Havana Linotypist. Others spoke of greater surveillance, fewer freedoms and just plain boredom. "The repression has increased," noted Landa. "They ask for your ID card everywhere. They're always watching you. People are afraid to talk. There's no spirit...
...Gulve, a San Diego financial consultant whose clients gave Meltzer $55,000, told TIME that Meltzer did introduce him to two supposed sons of the sheik in Florida. One was called Prince Ali Ben Ramon, a light-skinned man who spoke with an Oxford accent and drove a Rolls-Royce. The other was Mustafa, a much swarthier man who drove a red Mercedes. Gulve also spoke on the phone to someone who identified himself as Sheik Rahman, and found his accent decidedly Eastern. Says Gulve: "I told him that if he was the sheik, he must own all of Brooklyn...
...Ramon Bueno Brighton, Mass...
...Jose Ramon...
...that 'no man is an island.' " The White Album is full of the bizarre details, the eye for blinding weirdness, that made Slouching Towards Bethlehem one of the purest leftover artifacts of the '60s. Didion again collects clippings of American death trips: the brothers who bludgeoned Ramon Novarro, for example; and the 26-year-old woman who put her five-year-old daughter out to die on the center divider of Interstate 5 some miles south of the last Bakersfield exit; the child's fingers had to be pried loose from the Cyclone fence when...