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...have close relatives among the exiles in Florida and who are willing to drop by the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana to apply for emigration. The big losers are the 25,000 Cubans who risked their lives at sea only to wind up in tents at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station or in Panama. They cannot apply unless they return to Havana...
...nearly identical policies toward them. It has enforced tight embargoes against trade and travel and even sent warships to prowl off both coasts. Starting last month, refugees fleeing both islands have been plucked from the waters off Florida and interned in side-by-side tent cities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...
...Metropolitan, released in 1990, he created an engaging circle of Manhattan debs and preppies, enthralled by their own obsolescence. In Barcelona, on a larger canvas, Stillman paints a sympathetic portrait of two Americans -- Ted (Taylor Nichols), a genteel businessman, and his snarkier cousin, Fred (Chris Eigeman), a naval officer -- adrift in Spain during what the film, with beguiling pomposity, calls "the last decade of the cold...
...their homeland. Washington proposed an agreement under which the U.S. would accept some 20,000 legal immigrants annually (up from about 2,700 last year). In return, Fidel Castro's regime would take further steps to deter unsafe rafters from departing Cuba. The 16,000 Cubans now at Guantanamo naval base would have to take their place on a waiting list, meaning they would not enter the U.S. for many years...
Former Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin's lawsuit against the Las Vegas Hilton--where she claims she was groped during the 1991 Tailhook convention--went to trial today. She unexpectedly settled with Tailhook, an organization of naval aviators, last Friday; but the deal with the hotel fell through. She is seeking an unspecified sum from the Hilton Hotel Corp. for negligence. Jury selection began today in a court case that is expected to last five weeks...