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Article: CLINTON EASES UP ON CUBAN LAW PUNISHMENT AGAINST FOREIGN COMPANIES LIFTED INDEFINITELY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 4, 1997
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Hoping to quell the anger of some of America's strongest trading partners, President Clinton announced yesterday that he intended to waive indefinitely the most disputed part of a law that punishes foreign companies using American property confiscated in Cuba nearly 40 years ago.
In announcing his decision, the president said he did not want the furor that the Helms-Burton Act has set off in Canada, Mexico and Europe to jeopardize what he described as an emerging international effort to isolate Fidel Castro and his communist government in Havana.
``We must sustain our efforts to hasten the arrival of democracy in Cuba,'' Clinton said in a statement ...