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...National Resources Division that works entirely in the U.S. It isn't allowed to wiretap Americans or otherwise spy on them but can ask them to volunteer information. So the question for any global executive is this: If the CIA asks you for information about your trip to Cuba or Libya or China, what should you do? Many people, impelled by feelings of patriotism, are happy to help. But things get murky quickly in the spy world. How do you know the person contacting you is not a foreign agent or business competitor? What are the risks to your business...
...most important fact in Washington's failure on Thursday to be reelected for the first time since 1947 to the U.N. Human Rights Commission is that it was America's friends, not its enemies, that engineered the defeat. After all, the likes of China and Cuba and other targets of U.S.-led criticism in the committee were always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. reelection turned their backs on Washington. That such a scenario would unfold on this particular vote at this...
...They're also critical of what they see as Washington's tendency to politicize the issue of human rights, using annual resolutions at the commission to denounce China or Cuba when that conforms to U.S. foreign policy objectives but for the same reason voting alone in defense of Israel when that country is in the dock over its conduct...
...world's biggest trading bloc say the agreement would empower multinationals at the expense of human rights and the environment. The plan would create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by the end of 2005, stretching from Canada to Chile and covering 800 million people - but excluding Cuba...
JESSE HELMS Onetime Mexico foe goes south of the border to expand his horizons. Next stop, Cuba...