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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (1781)	4/22/2000 11:40:00 PM
From: dwight martin	Respond to of 9127

Outstanding post, George. We (the USA) get all the good ones, it seems.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (1781)	4/23/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

Yes, they talk about liberty but they don't practise it very well eh. "1968 From MacArthur Causeway, pediatrician Orlando Bosch fires bazooka at a Polish freighter. (City of Miami later declares "Orlando Bosch Day." Federal agents will jail him in 1988.)" lol ... that's hilarious if no one got hurt ... but they could have been. Missed this last night ... excellent find, George ... it is this very gap between their rhetoric and their actions that loses them the support they might otherwise find among other latinos ... the same is more and more true for Castro as well, fwiw. A pox on both their houses ... we do need to recognise though that the area has been a bit strange for some time - lcweb.loc.gov [from - lcweb.loc.gov ] Tripped over this, filing it away ... links to english on left - dmnweb.dallasnews.com english - dmnweb.dallasnews.com ""We have lived through many Latin American strongmen," one U.S. official said, "but this one takes the cake." Many Cubans, meanwhile, defend their leader's fighting spirit. "If there's something I will forever be grateful to Fidel for, it's this: He has taught us about dignity," said Jos‚ Hermidio Mart¡nez P‚rez, 81, a barbershop owner in the central farming city of Camaguey. "Right or wrong, he has stood up to the world's biggest country and has never flinched or given an inch. Chico, that's called guts."