From: "Bill Mattox" 

In addition, there was no action taken by the Clinton administration
against the Cuban officials attacking American citizens on American soil,
not even a protest. The whole thing appears to have been swept under the
rug. (Hardly surprising, though, insofar as another recent incident
involving Mexican soilders crashing through a chain-link fence and firing
upon Border Patrol agents has also been swept under the rug.)

"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
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> There were a couple of other things in that article that were a little
> surprising:
>
> 1) "If Elian returns to Cuba, he apparently will be housed in a state
> school for at least three months by a regime that considers children its
> property. Fidel Castro has promised as much. "
>
> 2) "Cuba's "diplomats" in Washington-they staff an
"interests section,"
> and not an embassy-are a notably thuggish lot. A few days before the
> Miami raid, a dozen of them emerged from their building to beat up anti-
> Castro protesters, men and women, who were demonstrating on a public
> sidewalk. Federal police who were guarding the building actually had to
> intervene. "
>
MPG.139b1d15a50907ba98a4dc{at}news.barkto.com>,
> rgparker{at}west.net says...
> >
http://www.reason.com/0007/fe.cf.reading.html
> >    Excerpt:
> >

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