Word: burtons
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...children, two stepchildren RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; private-school administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Florida House, 1982-86, Senate, 1986-89; U.S. House, 1989- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 52-2784, Miami 33152. Tel.: 305-460-3245 The first Cuban American in Congress, Ros-Lehtinen helped pass the Helms-Burton bill, which penalizes those who profit from property confiscated by the Castro regime. With no Democrat in the race, she will probably keep her seat...
...February Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes flown by anti-Castro pilots who lived in Diaz-Balart's district. Like much of the large local Cuban-American population, he is staunchly anti-Castro and pro-Helms-Burton Act, which denies foreigners who profit from Cuba-seized American property the right to visit the U.S. He has no Democratic opponent...
...Helms-Burton law is creating diplomatic havoc. Europe, Asia and Latin America are ignoring Washington's demand to halt trade with Cuba and threatening economic retaliation against the U.S. if Clinton carries out the law's most severe penalties. Ironically, Castro has benefited politically from the crisis. A CIA estimate this summer concluded that the new sanctions have actually strengthened his regime, handing it a convenient excuse to crack down on dissidents. "We're left now with a relationship that's more dysfunctional than during the cold war," says Robert Pastor, an NSC expert on Latin America during the Carter...
Conservative rabbi Burton Visotzky used to share that simple, exalted view of Abraham and his immediate descendants. "I had always thought of these guys as saints," he says. Not many people in the country are as familiar with the workings of the Bible's first book as Visotzky, an expert in Midrash, the authoritative early rabbinical parsings of Scripture, or Torah. Yet in the late 1980s, an impending divorce led to what the rabbi describes as "a bit of a religious crisis." Suddenly, when he read the Torah aloud in temple, the patriarchs of Genesis seemed all too familiar. Abraham...
...Bill Moyers is a very different kind of believer from Steve Fintel or, for that matter, Burton Visotzky. For one thing, Moyers' belief has an extremely well-exercised civic aspect. "What I have sought for 25 years to put on television is the conversation of democracy," he says. Although that conversation has been eclectic, with shows ranging from the cia to the black family, Moyers is convinced that "nonsectarian, nonseparationist" religious talk is an essential component. Repeatedly, while promoting the new series, he tells audiences, "We have to decide all over again our identity as a people. Religion belongs...