Bush holds firm to embargo, readies tougher Cuban policy

Thursday, May 16, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The White House rejected pleas by former President Carter and farm-state lawmakers to lift the trade embargo against Fidel Castro's Cuba on Wednesday, pledging an even tougher U.S. policy to undermine "one of the last great tyrants left on earth."

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