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- July 30, 1990: On Your Next Cuban Vacation. . .
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- On Your Next Cuban Vacation...</hdr>
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> Like it or not, Cuban officials are apparently preparing for
- the inevitable: life after the disappearance of the yearly $5
- billion in Soviet aid. Twice within the past year, the heads
- of giant American hotel chains--Curtis Carlson of Radisson
- and Jay Pritzker of Hyatt--were invited to pay secret visits
- to the island. Once there, flown in surreptitiously via Mexico
- City, the Americans were shown scale models of prime beachfront
- property and asked to select one for future development.
- Intriguingly, these displays were set up just outside Fidel
- Castro's office in Havana. Castro was nowhere in sight during
- Carlson's visit, but Pritzker was treated to a 2 1/2-hour
- meeting with the leader. No deals are possible until Washington
- lifts its trade sanctions. But both hotel barons were assured
- that Cuba is willing to discuss friendlier relations with the
- U.S.
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