Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action of the opera takes place in Persia, in front of the redbrick dwelling of Romilda (Amy Burton), the damsel who is in love with Arsamene (David Daniels), King Xerxes' (Lorraine Hunt) brother...
TIME: Nevertheless, the Helms-Burton bill was dormant. The wisdom of the embargo was being openly debated...
...violent, scornful of international law." The initial steps he took were relatively mild; they included suspending air travel and asking Congress to compensate the victims' families with money taken from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The real bite came, however, with Clinton's sudden support for the Helms-Burton bill, which will probably pass Congress this week. The President had been resisting the bill, but Castro ordered the planes shot down during an election year, and Clinton feels he cannot afford to alienate Cuban Americans in the crucial states of Florida and New Jersey...
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...