U.S. senator calls for release of dissidents

Friday, April 25, 2003

HAVANA -- U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin called on Cuba's communist leadership Thursday to free 75 dissidents sentenced to long prison terms in the nation's harshest crackdown in decades.

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