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

To: Les H who wrote (3261)	4/27/2000 4:07:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

Some of the strongest support for exile control of US policy on Cuba originated with american interests who had had property nationalised, and they weren't all mafiosos, some had mineral and petroleum properties for which they had paid to Batista or Machado widely varying prices which tended to the low side, if you know what i mean ... then there's the telephone monopoly of 1958 ... it will be a long legal jungle with a thriving compensation lawyer industry, just like Poland and East Germany still are. Cuba will grind through the process and the people will go about their daily lives, raising their children in - luck and smarts permitting - greater individual freedom. The resident cubano with whom i've spoken most on this expects to eventually get back title to a small property that was built by his great-grandfather and is now held by the state ... he's quite philosophical on the whole thing, considers it to be of sentimental value more than anything ... he is very proud to be a cubano, but like all for whom i have respect he has a sense of humor and considers himself first and foremost a member of our species.

To: Les H who wrote (3261)	4/27/2000 8:53:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

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