-Caveat Lector-
On 14 Dec 99, at 13:22, Kris Millegan wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> an excerpt from:
> Syndicate Abroad
> Hank Messick©1969
> The Macmillan Company
> London-Tronoto
> LCCCN 69-11590
> 246 pps. – First/only edition – Out-of-print
> Prologue:
> Command Decision
>
> NEW YEAR'S EVE in Havana and two "high rollers" prepared to quit the
> game.
>
> General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and Maier Suchowljansky—better
> known as Meyer Lansky—possessed an active sense of realism.
> International gangsters of long standing, both had surrendered power
> before only to rebuild as the vagaries of man's ignorance created new
> opportunities.
>
> It was a warm night as 1958 died, and cloudless. Business boomed in a
> hundred brothels where virgins—real and alleged—asked top prices.
> Experience was a commodity also concealed in the plush casinos where
> syndicate technicians cleaned the suckers as they had done for decades
> in scores of stateside joints. In the ballrooms of plush hotels
> subsidized by the casinos, tourist and Cuban bureaucrat danced the old
> year away.
>
> Reporters, their stories filed, joined the fun and games. The New York
> Times w ould be scooped by no newspaper next day for reporting:
>
> GOVERNMENT TROOPS SUPPORTED BY TANKS AND AVIATION HAVE FORCED THE
> REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM SANTA CLARA, ACCORDING TO REPORTS REACHING
> HAVANA TODAY.
>
> Perhaps reporters who never learned of the relation of crime to
> politics back home should not be expected to recognize a similar
> combination in a foreign country.
>
> For behind the official blandness things were happening. As bands in
> nightclubs across Havana broke into "Auld Lang Syne," President
> Batista began a series of telephone calls. The message to crook and
> crony was the same. Only those who had proven their value in the past
> received the warning. Presumably they might be useful in the future.
By the oddist twist of events, I was in Havana the weekend before
Castro came down from the hills (He arrived in Havana on Monday
and I left Sunday afternoon)....and it was my impression that the
people of Cuba were really behind him just about 100%.
sno0wl
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