Taking the High Ground?
June 17, 2003
In the Sydney Pollack film, Havana, produced 13 years ago, one of the protaganists, Jack Weil, lamented that war never makes any sense. Based on a script by Judith Rascoe, the film was set in Havana on December 31, 1958, when the Caribbean Paradise, located across the water from Miama, was celebrating the New Year. The festivities came to an abrupt end, however, when Batista fled the coop, and Fidel Castro and his guerillas from the Sierra Maestr
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