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...school administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Florida House, 1982-86, Senate, 1986-89; U.S. House, 1989- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 52-2784, Miami 33152. Tel.: 305-460-3245 The first Cuban American in Congress, Ros-Lehtinen helped pass the Helms-Burton bill, which penalizes those who profit from property confiscated by the Castro regime. With no Democrat in the race, she will probably keep her seat...
...February Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes flown by anti-Castro pilots who lived in Diaz-Balart's district. Like much of the large local Cuban-American population, he is staunchly anti-Castro and pro-Helms-Burton Act, which denies foreigners who profit from Cuba-seized American property the right to visit the U.S. He has no Democratic opponent...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The message Castro sent the Cuban people by those murders...was clear: 'If I can murder Americans over international waters, imagine what...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I believe we should exert continued economic pressure on Castro's Cuba so that the last Soviet-style communistic state in the world will soon fall under the weight of economic bankruptcy...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "With Castro, it was nearing midnight, and I said, 'I came here to negotiate an agreement...I'm going to have to say to the press...that I got nothing. Is that the message you want?' I started making inroads after that...