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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (95906)	4/24/2003 4:50:16 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Looks like everyone but the Hollywood crowd is waking up to that Bearded Bastard in Havana. washingtonpost.com U.S. Weighs Tighter Sanctions on Cuba By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 24, 2003; Page A21 The Bush administration is examining ways to tighten its tough policy toward Cuba in the wake of the communist government's recent crackdown on political dissent and the criticism it has brought from many who have long advocated normalizing relations with the island, according to administration officials. The arrests this month of 75 independent journalists and activists in Cuba's small community of political dissidents appear, for the moment at least, to have taken the wind out of the bipartisan congressional majority that favors lifting the ban on travel to the island and easing the U.S. trade embargo. President Bush had threatened to veto any such measures passed by Congress. "I think the scales have fallen from a lot of eyes," a U.S. official said. REST AT:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26658-2003Apr23?language=printe