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...Since then Fidel Castro's government has spent $90 million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars and even bottled water at a food and agribusiness exhibition. "The focus for American companies is how to create brand awareness in Cuba," says John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council...
...Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. And the Ashcroft appointment has justifiably angered those who oppose the nominee's past efforts against desegregation in Missouri, his hardline position on abortion, his willingness to blur the line between church and state and his disgraceful interventions to block two Clinton appointees, James Hormel and Judge Ronnie White...
...Ashcroft has said during his confirmation hearings that if confirmed as attorney general he would "not make sexual orientation a matter to be considered in hiring or firing," but many of his opponents have strongly questioned that commitment. Among the most notable skeptics is James Hormel, the openly gay former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, whose 1997 nomination was stymied by resistance led by Ashcroft - resistance Democrats maintain was related to Hormel's sexuality. After weeks of silence, Hormel now actively opposes Ashcroft's nomination, saying, "I am extremely disturbed that he was nominated for this very sensitive post...
...helped defeat James Hormel's nomination to be ambassador to Luxembourg because Hormel is openly gay, arguing Hormel would promote a sinful lifestyle...
...fate will turn on how many Democratic Senators want to teach the nominee a lesson about fair play and equal justice. White was by no means the only judge Ashcroft tripped up; Ashcroft was notorious for blocking all kinds of appointments, from the openly gay ambassadorial nominee James Hormel to Susan Oki Mollway, the first Asian-American woman to serve on the federal bench in Hawaii. In Hormel's case, Ashcroft's objections had nothing to do with his qualifications and everything to do with his lifestyle. Ashcroft would refuse even to meet with judicial nominees he opposed to hear...