The waters off Key West were smooth and serene one morning last week as a 38-ft. patrol boat, manned by two of Fidel Castro's navy lieutenants and watchfully escorted by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, sailed away to Havana. But behind his huge desk in Miami, an advertising-agency president named Erwin G. Harris, 40, was boiling mad. For by order of a state court, that patrol boat was his—even though it had just been swapped away from him by the U.S. Government.
The patrol-boat incident was a setback for Miami's Harris in a one-man...
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