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...long ago, all a Republican presidential candidate had to do was point out that his opponent was soft on Fidel Castro to maintain the G.O.P.'s lock on Florida's powerful Cuban-American community. But Bob Dole has nothing on Bill Clinton. The President has been courting that community, and to them he is now a hard-liner after their own hearts. A Miami poll has found that 41% of Florida's Cuban Americans plan to vote for Clinton, almost double what he won in 1992, finally giving him a chance to take the state he lost by a squeaker...
Castellanos is no stranger to exile. Born in Havana, he fled Castro's revolution with his parents in 1961 at age 6. They settled in Coats, North Carolina, which had 1,000 residents and one stoplight with only two colors. Castellanos attended the University of North Carolina but dropped out in his final semester to work on Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign...
...Rabin's government. "Syria will never be willing to settle for less than the entire Golan in return for peace," McGeary says. "They are letting Netanyahu know that they had a better offer on the table than he's offering now, so why should they accept anything less?" Janice Castro...
...each former welfare recipient they hire. The new employee continues to receive health-care and day-care benefits for four years. Clinton, who angered liberal Democrats by signing the bill, is trying to ease their fears by explaining how states can move people from welfare to work. Janice Castro...
...Labor Department report that unemployment dropped in August to its lowest point since a brief period in 1989. Campaigning in Florida, President Clinton called the new figures "more good news . . . it's just the latest evidence: strong growth and the strongest consumer confidence in years." The jobless rate -->