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...Helms-Burton Act of 1996 was authored in retaliation to the shooting down of two American planes by the Cuban government. Helms-Burton entitles American citizens to sue foreign companies that use property confiscated from Americans by Castro's government and also denies U.S. entry visas to those companies' employees. The act has been met by almost unified international opposition...
...fear is that conscience is not the primary incentive for our sanctions against Cuba. If our Cuban policy has been dictated by conscience, why is our China policy so remarkably unconscionable? China was awarded in spite of its hostility toward Taiwan last year, its foot-dragging in releasing and pardoning the Tiananmen dissidents, its limitations on the number of children parents are allowed to have and other untold abuses on the lives of Chinese citizens...
...inexplicable. There are only two differences which could have prompted our dual policies. First, being much closer to the U.S. mainland, Cuba is more effective in reminding the U.S. government of the principles we once cherished but abandoned in China's case. Second, Clinton has a significant constituency of Cuban-American exiles who oppose Castro's government and no analogous core of exiled Chinese supporters. (In the latter case I may yet be proven wrong if allegations about Clinton's Asian campaign contributors are well-founded...
...press to set up news bureaus in the country for the first time since the 1960s. CNN will be the first to begin reporting on a full-time basis from Cuba. So far it is the only one of 10 applicants that Castro's government has approved. A Cuban spokesman said the regime will continue to analyze the other applications and will make decisions "when the Cuban government considers it opportune." The news organizations cleared a major U.S. hurdle last week when Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee and a bitter foe of the Castro regime...
...addition to the club scene, students also say that they went to Montreal in search of high-quality Cuban cigars, which are illegal in the United States...