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Article: A VERY BIG FISH INDEED
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 16, 1995
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TO MOST of his neighbours in the once-plush but long run-down
Havana neighbourhood of Siboney, and to fellow golfers who used to
wonder why his four burly "caddies" were always looking somewhere
else while he putted, he was known as Senor Adams, or Tom El
Americano. Given the United States government's ban on travelling
to, or doing business with, Cuba, just to be known as "the
American" was enough to bestow a certain mystique in Havana. But
there was something about Senor Tom - perhaps the "caddies'"
disinclination for small talk, perhaps the unmistakable bulge of
pistols beneath their loose, tropical shirts - that discouraged too
many questions being asked in the 19th Hole Bar of Havana's ...