Word: islands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puerto Rican flag hung from John Harvard's feet Friday evening as a circle of more than 30 students from area universities gathered in Harvard Yard to protest U.S. policy on the island of Vieques...
Speaking in both Spanish and English, the students lit candles in memory of David Sanes, who was accidentally killed seven months ago during U.S. Navy test bombings on the island, which sits off the Puerto Rican coast...
...vigil, Antonio J. Torres, an advisor to the "Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques," said a continued U.S. military presence in Vieques would have a negative effect on the island's economy...
...Washington got their first glimpse Tuesday of what a post-embargo Cuba may look like. Fidel Castro donned a business suit to revel in the presence of the heads of state of Spain, Portugal and 14 Latin American countries at an Ibero-American summit on the once-isolated island. But many of his guests pointedly chastised the Cuban leader over human rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation...
...Jersey and Florida. But public opinion may have swung the other way, with a Reuters survey in the spring finding two thirds of Americans opposed to the embargo. Moves to end it are growing ever bolder and more numerous: Washington has relaxed restrictions on direct flights to the island, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue and Illinois's Republican governor George Ryan have both made strong appeals last month to end the embargo, while Missouri GOP senator John Ashcroft is currently promoting a bill to ease restrictions on sales of food and medicine to Cuba. The Ibero-American...