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AUGUST 2000 HEADLINES

August 31

FROM CUBA / Swedish Journalists Arrested In Havana / CPI

FROM CUBA / Medicines Spoil In Storage In Cienfuegos / Dr. Sunset Nogueras Rofes

FROM CUBA / Milk Spilt On The Streets Of Morón / FAPDH

FROM CUBA / The Economy vs. The Environment / Dr. José Raúl Rodríguez Rangel

FROM CUBA / Cuban Government In "State Of Alert" Against Corruption / Jesús Zúñiga

FROM CUBA / Prime Tobacco Wrapper Leaf Scarce / UPECI

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Washington takes playing tour of Cuba / The Seattle Times

Sotomayor in "great shape" / The Times of India

Cuba May Buy $300-500 Million in U.S. Ag Products / AgWeb.com

Cuba fever in full swing as Buena Vista hits Japan / Asahi News



August 30

FROM CUBA / Fuel Crisis Paralyzes Freight Trucks In Havana / CPI

FROM CUBA / Fuel Scarcity Crimps Economy In Central Cuban Province / CPI

FROM CUBA / Cuban Cinematheque To Ask For Help With Preservation / Jesús Zúñiga

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba's top lawmaker denied U.S. visitor's visa / Miami Herald

Swedish journalists arrested in Cuba / BBC News

Cuban legislator accuses Clinton administration of contempt / The Boston Globe

Cuba Creates Society of Haves and Have-Nots / NewsMax.com

Fidel's fantasy island / The Washington Times

Cuban Priests Abroad Are United To Church In Cuba / Zenit

Feud Threatens Pacts on Cuba-U.S. Migration / The Washington Post

Elian in the hospital? / WorldNetDaily.com


August 29

FROM CUBA / Independent Agricultural Coop Expects Good Crops This Year / APO

FROM CUBA / Four Rafters Fined For Attempting To Leave The Country / Ricardo González Alfonso

FROM CUBA / Noxious Gases Leak In Havana Residential Neighborhood / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Cuban Capital Undergoes Periodic Unexplained Power Outages / Cuba Voz

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Elián's relatives will fight for half of Oklahoma woman's estate / Sun-Sentinel

U.S. Artist Tells Cuban Author's Story / New York Daily News

U.S. Says Cuba Causes Misery With Its Hard Line on Emigres / NY Times


August 28

Cuba News / Miami Herald

U.S. Criticizes Cuba Migrant Policy / Yahoo!

Life of a Cuban Dissident Makes Way to Film Fests / Fox News

Castro Uses Sports to Target Cuban Youth / The Washington Post

Whither Elian? / WorldNetDaily.com


August 25

FROM CUBA / Cuban Doctor Fired For Silent Protest / APLO

FROM CUBA / Slave Labor Conditions In Cuban Jails / UPECI

Bush Condemns Fidel Castro / Yahoo!

Courageous Cuban Dissident Fears for His Life in Castro Prison / NewsMax.com

Cuba just wants athletes back / News24.com.za


August 24

FROM CUBA / Deteriorating Housing Causes Concern In Havana / Jesús Zúñiga

FROM CUBA / Violence Is On The Increase In Havana / Jesús Zúñiga

FROM CUBA / Shade Tree Planting Lags In Cuban Beaches / UPECI

Trip to bury loved one turns into a nightmare / Detroit Free Press

Cigar Lovers Will Find Lots to Do in Cuba in the Coming Months / Bloomberg Lifestyles

Coast Guard repatriates 26 Cuban immigrants / Miami Herald

Celebrating INS's illegal forced entry is distasteful / Luis Aguilar Leon / Miami Herald


August 23

FROM CUBA / Residents Protest Lack Of Water In Havana District / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Physicians Scarce In Children's Hospital In Havana / ANC

FROM CUBA / State Security Officers Arrest Independent Journalist / Ricardo González Alfonso

FROM CUBA / Burglary In Dollar Store Near Police Headquarters / MDPLB

Sotomayor Injured in High Jump / Yahoo!

Cuba leaving one era, entering another / Virtual New York

Cuba slowly edges into telecom world as pay phones finally appear / Sun-Sentinel

Free Oscar Elias Biscet from Cuban torture / Miami Herald

Hurricane Season Heats Up and Cuba Could Get Much Needed Rain / Bloomberg Lifestyles

Cuban Tobacco Cigar Festival Set for December in Pinar del Rio / Bloomberg Lifestyles


August 22

FROM CUBA / State Security Agents Visit And Threaten Dissident / Alida Viso Bello

FROM CUBA / President of Independent Physicians in Santiago de Cuba Harassed / Ricardo González Alfonso

FROM CUBA / Street Peddlers Complain Of Police Abuses / Regina del Sol

FROM CUBA / Administrators Discount Others' Salaries And Protect Their Own / Cuba Verdad

FROM CUBA / Mass Held In Honor Of Polish Patroness / Cuba Verdad

FROM CUBA / Hidden Code In The Ration Book / Pedro Crespo / Grupo Decoro

Cuban Leaders Watch U.S. Election / Yahoo!

Cuban 'colonel' won't testify / Miami Herald

Elian Legal Team 'Honored' for Losing Case / NewsMax.com


August 21

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Athletics: Sotomayor jumps above the rules / Electronic Telegraph

Olympic totalitarianism / Miami Herald

Act Of Censorship Or Matter Of Taste? / Chicago Tribune

Cuba heals idle Sotomayor / The Scotsman

U.S. Citizen and Kayaker Is Stung by Cuba's Stance / NY Times

Cuban reels / The Sunday Times

Youth Cross To Go To Cuba / EWTN

Holy Father Welcomes Cuban World Youth Day Delegation / EWTN


August 18

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuban Station Shows Elian on Beach / Yahoo!

Audience with coptic catholics, orthodox and young Cubans / EWTN

Olympics: Cuban 'traitors' can't compete / NZ Herald

Natalie Cole plans unforgettable trip to Havana / The Times of India Online


August 17

FROM CUBA / State Security Confiscates Children's Books; American Presumed Arrested / Reinaldo Cosano Alén

FROM CUBA / Authorities Concerned At The Start Of The Coffee Harvest In Pinar del Río / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Cocaine Shipment Seized In Havana; Six Colombians Arrested / Jesús Zúñiga

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba to help Brazil combat mosquito menace / The Times of India Online

Break the Embargo on Good Sense About Cuba / Jerry Brown / LA Times


August 16

FROM CUBA / Two Young Technicians Fired For Consorting With Dissidents / Lux InfoPress

FROM CUBA / Post Office Out Of Funds To Pay Money Orders / APSIC

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuban-American delegates walk out on Clinton / The Washington Times

Students train as doctors in Cuba / News24.com.za

Cigar Comment: Cancer Claims a Cuban Child While Help Was Near / Bloomberg Lifestyles

Cuba given 20 tons of rice by Riceland / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette


August 15

FROM CUBA / Two peasants get their cow killed, eaten and a 1,500 Pesos fine / Regina del Sol

FROM CUBA / Dollar-Denominated Opticians' Inaugurated / APLO

FROM CUBA / Multiple Cases Of Venereal Disease In Junior High School / Regina del Sol

FROM CUBA / "I Only Wanted My Roof Repaired...." / UPECI

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba's basebrawlers in tough / Edmonton Sun

Shark victims identified as Cuban rafters / Miami Herald

Defection a big gamble / Edmonton Sun

La Vida Mala / National Review

Castro: Shut Up, And Give It Up / Miami Herald


August 14

FROM CUBA / Longer Workdays For Bakers In Havana / Grupo Decoro

FROM CUBA / Lack Of Oil Blamed For Plant Closings In Cuba / Tamarindo 34

FROM CUBA / Being On Time / Manuel Vázquez Portal / Grupo Decoro

FROM CUBA / Flying On Cuban Airline Is Dicey Proposition / Jesús Zúñiga

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

More Cubans Defect, Reportedly to Mexico / The Washington Post

Agent blasted over defections / CNews

Reno Says Elian Gonzalez Raid Team Earned Awards / La Times

'Hello Fidel!' / Edmonton Sun

Ringgold choir gets glimpse of Cuba / Times & Free Press News

What do Cubans want? / Oswaldo Paya / Miami Herald

Plan to honor INS raiders a thumb in the eye / Miami Herald


August 11

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuban American National Foundation Condemns INS Celebration / Yahoo!

Cuba blocks Montalvo's appearance at Sydney for Spain / IAAF

Cuba fine tune team ahead of Olympics / Thestar.com.my

21 executed in Cuba in 1999 / BBC News


August 10

FROM CUBA / Government Journalist Fired For Publishing Independent's Work / FAPDH

FROM CUBA / Government Official Fired For Corruption / Rafael Contreras

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Onetime champion boxer in Cuba has arrest warrant out in U.S. / Sun-Sentinel

Awards Planned for INS Agents Who Seized Elian in Infamous Raid / NewsMax.com

Hurricane Deluge Could Prove a Mixed Blessing for Eastern Cuba / Bloomberg.com

The Cuban ship tortuously becalmed / Aguilar Leon / Miami Herald


August 9

FROM CUBA / The Government Sells "Free" Notebooks To School Children / ANC

FROM CUBA / Art Forgeries On The Increase In Cuba / ANC

FROM CUBA / French Buses Hard On Cuban Passengers / ANC

FROM CUBA / Raising Pigeons Threatened By Scarcity Of Feed / ANC

Cuba News / Yahoo!

INS will honor Elián raid team / Miami Herald

Defectors denounce Cuba's medical trips as propaganda / Sun-Sentinel

Cuban American Foundation Cool To Lieberman's Selection / CNS News

Cuban changes strategy / The Dallas Morning News

Washington team returns to Cuba / The Seattle Times


August 8

FROM CUBA / Blind Dissident Denied Means To Work / Regina del Sol

Defecting Cuban doctors in Miami for a new start / Miami Herald

Castro blames States for region's poverty / WorldNetDaily.com

Dancers pay the price of fame / BBC News


August 7

FROM CUBA / Public Demonstration In Santiago de Cuba Airport / APLO

Dissident's Trial Postponed; Massive Show Of Solidarity By Fellow Dissidents / APO

Labor Activist Was Stabbed To Death By Her Estranged Husband / APO

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Defectors expected in Miami tonight / Miami Herald

Coast Guard detains 19 Cubans after vessel runs aground / CNN

Castro Says Bush and Gore Are Boring / NewsMax.com

Cubans cleared in alleged hijacking / MSNBC

Ending suspension of high jumper a really low blow / National Post Online

Cuba's Schools: Communism Above All Else / NewsMax.com

Cigar Comment: Some Thoughts About the Cuban Embargo and Travel / Bloomberg.com


August 4

FROM CUBA / Meningitis Outbreak In Eastern Cuba / APLO

FROM CUBA / Dismal Conditions In Cuban Hospitals / Grupo Decoro

FROM CUBA / U. S. Phone Companies Pay Cuba More Than 40 Million / Jesús Zúñiga

FROM CUBA / "Shoppers" Represent A New Mode Of Subsistence / Israel Picallo / CPI

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Panel on Elián protests stirs little interest / Miami Herald

Castro uses editorial to attack GOP / WorldNetDaily.com


August 3

FROM CUBA / Youth Shot In Backyard / Cuba Voz

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Independent Libraries Mix Politics, Culture in Cuba / The Washington Post

Inmate's furlough curbed / Oppenheimer / Miami Herald

Washington Ballet to Dance in Cuba This Fall / The Washington Post


August 2

FROM CUBA / He Is Not Crazy, Just A Dissident / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Workers Concerned About Imminent Layoffs / Tamarindo 34

FROM CUBA / Only One Bus / Agencia Libertad

FROM CUBA / A Man Kills His Family, Himself / Agencia Libertad

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuban Security Blanket / Edmonton Sun

Put the blame on Castro / Sebastian A. Arcos / Miami Herald

GOP's policy on Cuba reverses course / Fiedler / Miami Herald


August 1

FROM CUBA / Outlook For The Coming Months Bleak / Lux InfoPress / FAPDH

FROM CUBA / Dissident Assaulted / APSIC

FROM CUBA / There Is Understanding Between Church And State, According To Cuban Official / Jesús Zuñiga

FROM CUBA / Self-Employed Subject To Arbitrary Regulations In Las Tunas / FAPDH

Party adopts pro-embargo platform / Miami Herald

Church In Cuba Is "Seed Of Civil Society" / ZENIT

Cuba delighted at Chavez victory / BBC News

Fidel's Floozies Fall From Grace / NewsMax.com





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