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To: LindyBill who wrote (11662)	10/10/2003 6:45:21 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Cuban dissident calls for referendum - 4 Oct 2003 sltrib.com HAVANA -- Despite an island-wide Cuban government crackdown that struck especially hard at the Varela Project's supporters, dissident leader Oswaldo Paya on Friday delivered a second set of signatures -- 14,384 -- backing the unprecedented petition drive for political reform. Paya, his wife, Ofelia Acevedo, and another Varela Project organizer carried a cardboard box containing the new signatures, addresses and identification numbers, most of them collected since the March crackdown of dissidents, and brought them to the National Assembly before going to Havana's Church of the Immaculate to pray. Bush seeks ideas for Cuba regime change - 10 Oct 2003 miami.com WASHINGTON - Hoping to make amends with a key political constituency, President Bush said Friday the United States would tighten enforcement of its embargo on Cuba and provide a haven to more fleeing Cubans while planning for the day when Fidel Castro's rule comes to an end. "Clearly, the Castro regime will not change by its own choice. But Cuba must change," Bush told an invited audience of Cuban exiles, anti-Castro groups and others during a Rose Garden ceremony.