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December

• CUBA: SYSTEMATIC REPRESSION OF DISSENT INS RESOURCE INFORMATION CENTER [PS/CUB/99.001] December 1998 -- Cuba is a one-party Communist state, in which every Cuban is subject to a totalitarian system of political and social control. That leaves Cubans with no recourse before the unlimited powers of the state, which has zero tolerance for the growth of civil society and systematically violates the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, privacy and due process of law.

  November

  October

• AMB. BURLEIGH REMARKS ON CUBA EMBARGO AT U.N. ASSEMBLY -- U.S. sanctions aimed at promoting transition to democrcy (October 14, 1998)
• Cuba's Agriculture: Collapse & Economic Reform Economic Research Service / USDA Agricultural Outlook/ October 1998

  September

  August

  July

• FACT SHEET: PRESIDENT'S DECISION ON LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III -- Suspends law suit provision to http suit under Act (July 16, 1998)
• TEXT: EIZENSTAT ON HELMS-BURTON TITLE III WAIVER -- Cites EU, Latin American support for Cuban democracy (July 16, 1998)
• TEXT: CLINTON STATEMENT ON HELMS-BURTON WAIVER -- President again suspends confiscated property provision (July 16, 1998)

  June

  May

• SECRETARY COHEN FORWARDS CUBAN THREAT ASSESSMENT TO CONGRESS May 6, 1998
• The Cuban Threat to U.S. National Security This report has been prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the National Security Agency, and the United States Southern Command Joint Intelligence Center pursuant to Section 1228 of Public Law No. 105-85, 111 Stat. 1943-44 (6 May 1998)

  April

  March

• CUBAN THREAT VOA 3/28/98 CUBA IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO U-S SECURITY ACCORDING TO A PENTAGON REPORT TO BE SENT TO THE U-S CONGRESS SOON.
• U-S RELAXES A LITTLE TOWARD CUBA 03/25/98 VOA U-S OPINION ROUNDUP: LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT CLINTON RESTORED A POLICY OF LIMITED CONTACT WITH CUBA, CAUSING A GOOD DEAL OF COMMENT SINCE THEN IN THE NATION'S PRESS.
• TEXT: RANNEBERGER ON CUBA AND THE 2-YEAR IMPACT OF HELMS-BURTON -- Pressure through economic sanctions remains "essential" (March 12, 1998)
• CUBA'S BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE EFFORTS Manuel Cereijo Guaracabuya III-1998

  February

  January

• CLINTON ON SUSPENSION OF HELMS-BURTON PROVISION -- Blocks right to http suit over confiscated property (January 16, 1998)
• EIZENSTAT STATEMENT ON HELMS-BURTON SUSPENSION -- President's decision promotes goal of Cuban democracy (January 16, 1998)
• CHRONOLOGY OF U.S. - CUBAN RELATIONS, 1958-1998 16 Jan 1998
• ZENITH AND ECLIPSE: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN PRE-CASTRO AND PRESENT DAY CUBA (As released by the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State) January 12, 1998 - Cuba was a relatively advanced country in 1958, certainly by Latin American standards and, in some areas, by world standards. The data appear to show that Cuba has at best maintained what were already high levels of development in health and education, but at an extraordinary cost to the overall welfare of the Cuban people.
• EIZENSTAT CITES GROWING CONSENSUS ON NEED FOR CHANGE IN CUBA -- Discusses U.S. sanctions policies toward Cuba, Iran (January 7, 1998)
• U.S. POLICY TOWARD CUBA: A COMPILATION OF OFFICIAL STATEMENTS U.S. Interests Section Havana, Cuba January 1998 (Statements cover issues from human rights to migration)