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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 Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) succeeds with a bill that would punishforeign companies that do business with Cuba.TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays the Helms bill is expected to pass, but Clinton Administration officials plan to forestall a Cuban crisis by promising not to enforce it. Administration officials...
...Overall, what we discussed would not tighten or loosen the current rules, but simply rationalize them and try to improve our teaching program," Pharr said...
Several students said their families, burdened by rising costs resulting from the peso's shrinking worth, have had to tighten their belts...
...centerpiece of theRepublican welfare reform plantoday, voting 22-11 to give states more leeway in distributing benefits and to cut off government aid to most legal immigrants. The legislation also would replace cash benefits to thousands of disabled children with expanded medical services. Another House committee approved legislation to tighten rules for the food stamp program and to hold down automatic increases in benefits...
...diplomatic rapprochement, while the conservative Republicans now in control of the U.S. Congress--pressured by Miami's community of Cuban Americans--are bent on keeping the door to Cuba firmly closed to U.S. companies. Just last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms introduced legislation that would tighten the 33-year-old economic embargo even more. ``Let me be clear,'' said Helms. ``Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must and will leave Cuba.'' Nevertheless, Castro has also taken a number of other steps to ensure...