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...chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations...
...chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations...
Brothers to the Rescue, or Hermanos al Rescate, was founded in 1991 by members of Miami's anti-Castro Cuban exile community as a peaceful protest group. Its technique was to fly over the Caribbean trying to spot rafts. Finding one, Brothers would swoop down close to the water and drop a flare. The orange smoke would guide the U.S. Coast Guard to the raft's position. The group saved the lives of hundreds if not thousands of Cubans who otherwise would have drowned...
...first of 20 five-day treks through the West. One hundred winners of a sweepstakes drawing, who must testify they are smokers over 21, will be flown to the train with their guests and receive $1,000 mad money. They will take side trips on horseback, white-water raft and hot-air balloon. They will see private shows by country singers and rodeo stars and savor a guilty pleasure few trains now offer: smoking catarrhs--sorry, smoking cars--galore. There will also be a few smoke-free areas...
...still at war, the Bosnian Serbs. In 20-hour-a-day rounds of negotiations, under virtual house arrest, the diplomats are struggling forward. As one Balkan delegate says, "Things are getting much more intense in here." At the end of last week the delegations were still wading through a raft of U.S.-prepared documents addressing the question of how the Bosnian Serbs can be integrated into a reconstituted Bosnia-Herzegovina...