Cuban Crime Of Passion
June, 1994
Buy a cigar, go to jail.It's been more than 20 years since Don Kendall, chairman of Pepsico, lit up a cigar while I was interviewing him, but I still get ticked off about it. I could tell from the shape and the aroma that it was one of those exquisite hand-rolled Cohibas that Fidel Castro used to favor.Damn, I thought, how come it's a crime--trading with the enemy, no less--if some tobacconist on 42nd Street offers me a Cuban cigar, but it's legal for Kendall, a top Republican contributor and fr...
