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Cuba has told the State Department that it might unleash anew wave of refugeesin retaliation against GOP efforts to tighten the three-decade-old U.S. embargo on the country. The Washington Post reported today that Cuba told U.S. diplomats that itsrefugee flowwould become "difficult to control" if Senate Foreign Relations...
Maybe it's easier for a woman to acknowledge this because subliminal prejudice hurts women too. Studies have shown, for example, that people are more likely to find an article convincing if it is signed by "Bob Someone" instead of, say, "Barbara Someone." It's just the brain's little...
If Clinton ever had hopes he could warm up relations with Cuba, they are gone now that Republicans control Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and other powerful lawmakers are convinced that Castro is on the verge of collapse and should be squeezed even harder to precipitate...
Facing harsh odds for re-election, Clinton cannot afford to offend Florida voters by opposing the measure. Indeed, the Administration showed its toughness last week when the State Department forbade Cuba's U.N. ambassador to attend a national prayer breakfast in Washington. But these diplomats know that Helms' bill will...
The Helms bill may hurt the U.S. more than Castro. Gary Jarmin, head of the new, conservative U.S.-Cuba Foundation, argues that Helms' bill will only help Castro score anti-American propaganda points. Echoing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and...