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  • Dan Rather, CNN and Castro - (unbelievable details unknown previously

    04/18/2005 4:02:20 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 36 replies · 1,901+ views
    A.I.M.ORG ^ | APRIL 18, 2005 | SHERRIE GOSSETT
    In his new book "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant," Fontova describes what he calls a staged interview Dan Rather held with Juan Miguel, father of Elian Gonzalez, the youthful lone survivor of a capsized Cuban boat which sank on its way to the U.S. The custody battle culminated in a dramatic, pre-dawn raid by machine-gun-toting federal agents to snatch the 6-year-old from his Miami relatives during Easter weekend and send him back to Castro's tyranny. Fontova also tells a heart-wrenching story of Cuba's execution of American businessman Howard Anderson. Anderson owned a chain of service stations and a Jeep dealership and...
  • Case against Cuba won, but family's quest goes on

    04/19/2003 2:01:53 PM PDT · by Luis Gonzalez · 5 replies · 173+ views
    The Houston Chronicle ^ | April 19, 2003 | JENALIA MORENO
    Forty-two years after a Cuban firing squad executed an American businessman, his family won a $67 million judgment against the Cuban government. But the struggle for the widow and four children of Howard Anderson now turns to the United States and whether the Treasury Department will release money seized decades ago from the island nation to cover the judgment. A circuit judge in Miami, Ellen Leesfield, ruled late Thursday that Anderson's children and his widow, Dorothy Anderson McCarthy of Pompano Beach, Fla., qualify for the compensation under a law that allows Americans to sue foreign countries for acts of terrorism....