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...other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which is why the GOP leadership is fighting to stop a bill authorizing a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba from reaching the House floor. Embarrassing Lott is the fact that the measure was initiated by Washington Republican representative George Nethercutt; even more embarrassing is that despite the efforts by GOP congressional leaders to maintain the Cuba-embargo shibboleth on the Hill, Nethercutt and his allies - many of whom...
...spot by reporters Monday, Senator Lott was at pains to distinguish between trade with China, of which he's an enthusiastic advocate, and trade with Cuba, which he firmly opposes. Cuba "is the only remaining communist country in the world except for North Korea," Lott maintained, and "Castro has shown no repentance; he's running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming...
...boobulous Victoria's Secret models. And the round tables aren't exactly World News Tonight. Just like your co-workers at lunch, the hosts shoot from the lip, sometimes with suspect facts. In an Elian Gonzalez segment, Behar likened the Miami standoff to the Cuban missile crisis, where "Cuba blinked." (The Soviet Union, but who's counting...
JANET RENO A.G. clears Puerto Rican protesters without a shot. Now just get the kid back to Cuba...
...says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett from Atlanta. "Instead, it encountered more scrutiny and skepticism than they were prepared for. At the same time, though, two of the judges rattled the federal government by expressing serious concerns about the kinds of conditions Elian would grow up under in Cuba. Still, by the end Judge Edmondson indicated that he was yet to be convinced that the Justice Department somehow overstepped its discretionary powers in this case...