"One day the good Lord will take Fidel Castro away," Bush said in response to a question after a speech at the Naval War College.Friday, June 29, 2007
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NEWPORT, Rhode Island (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush made plain his feelings about Fidel Castro on Thursday -- wishing the Cuban leader would disappear.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro is happy to explain how he's managed to reach the age of 80, despite being the target of numerous assassination attempts.
It must have been the grace of God, Castro suggests, apparently joking, in a short essay distributed Thursday via e-mail to journalists in Havana. "The Good Lord protected me."
Castro's words were chosen carefully, in an echo - with a twist - of comments made earlier in the day by President Bush after a speech at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
WASHINGTON — For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President Bush. On Wednesday, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby became federal inmate No. 28301-016.
Libby, who was convicted in March of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
The assignment of an inmate number by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons represents another step on the road to prison. Libby, however, is hoping that an appeals court will intervene and put the sentence on hold before he is ordered to surrender.
After 25 years in retail, Karen Rexrode had enough.
She left her Aldie nursery and hopped in the car, to travel the Eastern seaboard, occasionally alone and often with her friend of 20 years, Holley Green, attending photography seminars and shooting pictures of the North American landscape.
“I’ve remade my life in a way,” said Rexrode, 52.
Nguyen Chanh Thi, a South Vietnamese general whose dismissal in 1966 almost set off a civil war within the Vietnam War, died of heart ailments Saturday at a hospice in Lancaster, Pa. He was 84.
Thi, who oversaw the five northernmost provinces that made up the I Corps region of South Vietnam, had a reputation as an aggressive field commander and savvy political player who had a hand in the multiple coups and counter-coups of the mid-1960s.
President Nguyen Cao Ky, fearing him as a rival, mustered the support of most of the other South Vietnamese generals and fired Thi on March 10, 1966.
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