Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON D.C.: President Clinton and the Republican Congress have reached an agreement on aggressive legislation punishing Cuba for shooting down two civilian planes. The President had threatened to veto a similar bill last fall just last fall, but abruptly changed course after Saturday's attack. The 'Libertad' bill permits Americans to sue foreign companies that invest in Cuban property that has been confiscated from its owners and shuts down U.S. aid. The measure's Republican sponsors say the bill will strangle Castro's regime, cutting off foreign capital. Senator Claiborne Pell, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...released a tamer statement saying it "strongly deplores" the attack, which left four Cuban-Americans dead. The Council also called for an investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization, which could pave the way for sanctions, although some council diplomats said there was little support for punitive measures against Cuba. The Cuban Foreign Ministry continues its claim that the American planes were over Cuban waters and called the resolution a "miscarriage of justice...
...tourist guides make little mention of it, but no island is free from the new influence of the drug cartels. They stash cocaine on the U.S. Virgin Islands, and their boats lurk in the waters off St. Eustatius and Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian...
...downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets and to pass the Helms-Burton legislation enhancing the effectiveness of the economic embargo against Cuba. Clinton also restricted the travel of Cuban officials in America and limited visits by Cubans. In the works...
...commitment, which expires at the end of February. About 2,000 troops, mostly Canadian, would stay if the U.N. approves the request, but the last American soldiers are expected to leave the country this spring. In his last official act as president on Tuesday, Aristide resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba...