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MIAMI: Reports from Cuba indicate that the Helms-Burton Bill has already, affect investment in Cuba. In an exclusive interview with Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a different political climate last fall, a bill pushing for increased sanctions against Cuba was going nowhere in Congress. But after Cuba shot down two planes two weeks ago, the Helms-Burton Bill quickly revived. Passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the bill is breezed through the House late Wednesday. "The Bill would have been modified and defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with...
...shaking their heads. Says Duffy: "Jack Kemp's extreme sense of bad timing lives on." In an interview with CNN, Kemp said he was prompted into the fray after the Dole campaign began attacking Forbes' economic proposals, which Kemp said were very close to Dole's own.Congress Passes Helms-Burton...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a different political climate last fall, a bill pushing for increased sanctions against Cuba was going nowhere in Congress. But after Cuba shot down two planes two weeks ago, the Helms-Burton Bill quickly revived. Passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the bill is breezed through the House late Wednesday. "The Bill would have been modified and defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with...
MIAMI: Reports from Cuba indicate that the Helms-Burton Bill has already, affect investment in Cuba. In an exclusive interview with Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire...