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Old 02-19-2008, 10:17 PM
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Found this for you Boomer:

From Benjamin Karim's memoir
REMEMBERING MALCOLM, pp.111-112
Carroll & Graf Publishers 1992

"Malcolm's powers of persuasion did not entirely succeed
with Fidel Castro. In September 1960, when Castro came to
New York to speak at the United Nations, the press got word
from his midtown hotel that along with his entourage Castro
was traveling with live chickens, to be sure he'd have
untainted poultry, and evidently had had their necks wrung
hi his hotel room. Blood was splattered, and feathers were
strewn, everywhere, on the walls, carpet, bedspreads,
chairs. The press was having a field day. So Malcolm sent
word to Castro that he should move uptown to the Hotel
Theresa. An FOI brother, Luqman, who was working with the
Cubans on security at the hotel, was informed by a Cuban
official that Castro would like to meet with Malcolm.
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