Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lobbying opened up U.S. relations with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and even North Korea; a trade mission headed by retired admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his son is visiting Pyongyang this week. So Castro is promising Yankee investors they will make a lot of money in Cuba if they will pressure Washington to end the blockade. He has made some modest gestures in recent months to underscore his appetite for American investment: shaking the hand of Vice President Al Gore in Mexico last December, allowing improved phone service to the U.S. Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba...
...than six months. The Cubans, who rioted in December, were angry at being returned to the island they had fled. ``We are political pawns,'' said Alberto Lujardo as he walked off the plane at Guantanamo. ``We've been betrayed by the U.S. government and by the communist government of Cuba...
...Clinton ever had hopes he could warm up relations with Cuba, they are gone now that Republicans control Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and other powerful lawmakers are convinced that Castro is on the verge of collapse and should be squeezed even harder to precipitate his downfall. Last week they introduced legislation that would intensify the embargo, and it stands a good chance of passing intact. Clinton officials were caught unawares by the new bill, which would punish foreign companies doing business with Cuba. Among its provisos: Americans whose property was expropriated by Cuba could...
Facing harsh odds for re-election, Clinton cannot afford to offend Florida voters by opposing the measure. Indeed, the Administration showed its toughness last week when the State Department forbade Cuba's U.N. ambassador to attend a national prayer breakfast in Washington. But these diplomats know that Helms' bill will buy the U.S. considerable trouble with good friends that are among Cuba's leading foreign investors...
...Helms bill may hurt the U.S. more than Castro. Gary Jarmin, head of the new, conservative U.S.-Cuba Foundation, argues that Helms' bill will only help Castro score anti-American propaganda points. Echoing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much...