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Faced with 4,400 Haitians living at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. government today said that any of those refugees who agree by Jan. 5 to return home will get $80 and job opportunities. Those who turn down the offer will be forced to return without the benefits. Most of the remaining Guantanamo refugees -- there were as many as 20,000 before the Haitian military leadership abandoned their posts in September -- are seeking resettlement...
...irony of the crisis over the Cuban boat people is that many of those who risked their lives to get to the U.S. aboard rickety, homemade craft are taking to the water again. This time, though, they are heading back to Cuba. They lay their cots over the barbed wire that blocks their path to Guantanamo Bay. If they reach the water and swim to the other side, they'll be in Cuban territory...
...haven't tried to escape yet, but I'm going to," said Elsa Quintero, 44, a grandmother who fled Cuba on a raft and has been in detention at Guantanamo since Aug. 28. "The 25th of December is a date I'd like to celebrate, and I'll walk across minefields if I have...
...Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems...
...create jobs at home. U.S. trade officials admit that such a trade zone is most valuable in U.S. political terms for the moment, since draft language doesn't call for final international negotiations till 2005. Instead, many of the summiteers -- including the president -- focused on side issues such as Cuba's conspicuous absence. "We hope that the next time we have one of these summits, and the people of all the Western Hemisphere send their leaders here, a leader of a democratic Cuba will take its place at the table of nations," Clinton said in a swipe at Cuban leader...