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...Mariel boatlift, when 125,000 disaffected Cubans flooded the U.S. Then, Castro had responded to Jimmy Carter's blanket offer of asylum by opening the port of Mariel for any boat that wanted to leave. And last week Castro was again quick to play his trump card. He toured the scene of the rioting in a jeep and later appeared on Cuban TV to accuse the U.S. of provoking the incident. "I do not want to say there will be another Mariel," he said. "But either they take serious measures to guard their coasts, or we will stop putting obstacles...
...figure said that he believes thatworries about corruption could be one of theDemocrats' few trump cards in this race...
...Donald Trump scored 50 percent of the Big Apple's Empire State Building--without putting up any cash. In return for equity financing and the Donald's singular real estate expertise, NS America handed over halfthe shares for the famous building, which the company bought last October for $45 million. The move is rumored to have further inflamed the ongoing Trump-Helmsley rivalry, as Harry Helmsley currently runs the group representing the Empire State's leaseholders. Trump criticized the management of the building and promised to re-establish the landmark as a world-class real estate possession.parparparpar
...second month, both club officers and members of Local 6 of the Hotel Employees Union are bidding for public support. Recently, the club took the extraordinary step of hiring Howard Rubenstein and Associates, a high-priced public relations firm which has counted real estate mogul and playboy Donald J. Trump among its clients...
Liston argued in an interview last night thatthe council has mechanisms to change itsconstitution and by-laws, and said he wasn't surewhether a referendum could "trump" thosemechanisms...