Word: cuba
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...years, Ben Squires dreamed about going to Cuba. His brother Mark had been stationed there in 1947 when he was in the Navy and "loved it," says Ben, 75, a retired health administrator in Chicago. "He raved about the music, the magnificent architecture, the people. It sounded terrific, and I always wanted to go. I figured I would, eventually...
Like most Americans, the Squireses could not have made the trip much sooner, because a travel ban has been in effect since Castro took power in 1959. Technically, the ban is still in effect, but now there are legal ways around it, and Cuba has become the travel destination of choice for thousands of Americans--especially older Americans who have some memory of a pre-Castro Cuba. They are helped by a growing number of organizations that do all the legwork for them, procuring the proper visas and making flight and travel arrangements...
Richardson has served as special envoy to President Clinton on sensitive diplomatic missions. He has rescued Americans held hostage in Iraq, Cuba, Sudan and North Korea. He helped negotiate the restoration of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti...
...Well, for one thing it's probably a violation of the free trade agreements to which Washington is a signatory. The Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans who trade freely with both Cuba and the U.S. have responded sharply to what they perceive as a U.S. attempt to impose its own Cuba policy on others, and have challenged the legislation as a violation of World Trade Organization rules. President Clinton began using the waiver once the Europeans made clear that they would take the matter before the WTO, and seek retaliatory trade sanctions against the U.S. - and they'd probably...
...aircraft flown by Miami-based exiles that had been flying propaganda missions into Cuban airspace - and Mr. Clinton saw Florida as one of the critical battleground states in that year's reelection campaign. The legislation will make life difficult for President Bush, too, of course, because it transformed the Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force the new president, like his predecessor, to choose between violating WTO regulations and facing down a very angry Senator Jesse Helms - and some even angrier and very organized folks down in Miami whose yeoman work last...