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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (254331)	5/11/2002 5:35:58 PM
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What is wrong with Jimmy Carter? Isn't it a breach of tradition for a former President to seek to undermine a sitting president's foreign policy?: Carter Seeks to Improve U.S.-Cuba Ties Ex-President Will Discuss Human Rights With Leading Dissidents By Anthony Boadle Reuters HAVANA (May 11) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will arrive in Havana on Sunday seeking to improve relations between the United States and Cuba that have been caught in a stormy ideological rivalry for four decades. Carter is the highest-profile American to visit the island since President Fidel Castro came to power in a 1959 revolution that turned Cuba into a one-party communist state. Carter, 77, will meet with Castro, 75, three times during his six-day visit, and also spend three hours discussing human rights issues with leading dissidents. As president from 1977 to 1981, Carter sought a rapprochement with Havana that stalled after Cuba sent troops to Angola. His visit comes at a time when U.S. politicians are debating whether to ease a 4-decade-old trade embargo against Cuba, with powerful business lobbies seeking an end to restrictions on credit and travel by Americans to the island. The Bush administration, backed by Cuban American exiles in Florida, wants to tighten the trade sanctions and has urged Carter to speak up for human rights and political prisoners. Carter, a critic of isolating Cuba with sanctions, has said his trip could help improve U.S.-Cuba relations and he will raise human rights concerns, although he has said he does not expect the trip to change Cuba's system. ''I don't think it will produce any miracles. It can't because the Bush administration is determined to hold (to) the old policy,'' said Wayne Smith, the top U.S. diplomat in Havana under the Carter presidency. ''But in that it will encourage further dialogue it is all to the good,'' Smith said. BIOWARFARE CHARGES Carter will visit Cuba in the midst of a new spat between Havana and Washington prompted by U.S. charges that Cuba was developing biological weapons and had shared technology with enemies of the United States. Castro accused the Bush administration on Friday of fabricating the charges to stop U.S. sales of food to Cuba that were authorized by Congress a year ago, and to counter growing support among Americans for further easing of the trade embargo