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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...
Bill Clinton got him off the hook this time, but come July George W. Bush is going to face some tough choices on Cuba. The outgoing President on Wednesday issued yet another six-month waiver of a law allowing U.S. citizens whose property was nationalized by Fidel Castro during the 1960s to sue non-U.S. companies doing business with Cuba. The law was passed in 1996, as part of the Helms-Burton package that tightened the embargo against Cuba, and also provided for U.S. sanctions against foreign companies trading with the communist island state. But President Clinton's waiver...
...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...
...Order of the British Empire. Their first edict: declare war on Abba GEORGE HARRISON Ex-ex-Beatle may be up for first posthumous knighthood. Maybe it's us, but England's knights are a less and less impressive fighting force Losers MIKE TYSON Iron Mike goes "crazy" in Cuba and gets in a fight with journalists. As all brave reporters would, they react by running like scared rabbits 'N SYNC Boy band to be Jedi in next Star Wars film, only to get blown up in seconds. And just like that, George Lucas makes up for Phantom Menace ADOLF HITLER...