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Article: No, Jesse, no. (Jesse Helms' Cuba boycott legislation)(Column)
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- National Review
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- April 17, 1995
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Senator Helms has withdrawn his rider on the defense bill, but he promises that the measure will be reintroduced, and we ought at least to know what we are up to. The measure is designed to tighten the hold on Castro's Cuba and goes so far as to forbid the importation of agricultural products from any country that buys Cuban sugar.
For the record (as the tergiversators usually begin), I have probably minted as many anti-Castro columns, speeches, articles, and books as anyone else alive. I think it important to say about Castro that he is a genuinely evil man, probably a sadist, certainly someone whose tortures, even of former companions, make for reading as lurid as ...