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To: Boplicity who wrote (36637)	7/21/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Morgan Drake	Respond to of 152472

Thread. Check this out. If you don't think absolutely brilliant people can do incredibly dumb things -- Suit: U.S. tried 637 ways to kill Castro HAVANA (AP) - Schemes to poison a chocolate milkshake and put lethal powder in a scuba diving suit were among the 637 alleged attempts on President Fidel Castro's life recounted this week in a lawsuit against the U.S. government. Hearings continued Tuesday in the lawsuit, filed in Havana in late May by organizations connected to the government. The suit accuses the United States of conducting a 40-year dirty war against the island nation. It asks for $181 billion in damages for the deaths of 3,478 Cubans and permanent physical damage to more than 2,000 others in a variety of acts ranging from the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 to a string of bombings at Havana hotels in 1997. The hearings on Tuesday included testimony about a 1981 dengue epidemic that Havana maintains was deliberately introduced on the island by the American government in an attempt to topple Castro's communist system. The epidemic killed 158 people, including 101 children. No U.S. representative attended the court proceedings and the U.S. government has not commented on the claims. Scores of people testified and huge piles of written evidence were presented. Attorneys for the plaintiffs are to offer their summation on Wednesday. While the Cuban government used the hearings to make a political point, it appeared unlikely the lawsuit would result in any damages being paid. There are no American funds in Cuba that can be frozen and seized. The plaintiffs include the National Association of Small Farmers, the Federation of Cuban Women, the Communist Workers of Cuba and the Federation of University Students - all mass organizations associated with Cuba's government. The lawsuit appears to be Havana's answer to a lawsuit in the United States. In that case, a federal judge in Miami has ordered Cuba to pay $187 million to the families of three Americans killed in 1996 when Cuban military jets shot down two small private planes off the island's coast. Cuban authorities were angered by that lawsuit, and by attempts to seize Cuban funds from telephone companies operating long-distance phone service between the two countries. Morgan