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21 hrs ago | Journal News

USO: A little slice of home for soldiers

Country Captain Chicken - 'chicken in some type of green sauce,' according to Lance Cpl.

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Yesterday | RecordOnline.com

Que Pasa: Cuban immigrant relishes chance to help others

It's been nearly 45 years since Ed Elias first set foot on American soil, but he may never forget the hardships his family endured when they emigrated from Cuba.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Newsday.com

Cuban blogger says she is briefly detained

ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says she is briefly detained, harrassed by state security agents HAVANA - HAVANA a ' A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

Jewish World Review

Argus Hamilton

And now for the important news .... By Argus Hamilton WalMart began selling caskets on its web site Thursday which prompted fears by funeral parlors that they'll be undersold.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

Pan-African News Wire

There Has Been No Change In US Policy Towards Cuba

Since the election of President Obama, there has been no change whatsoever in the implementation of the blockade SPEECH BY FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRA GUEZ PARRILLA AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ITEM "NECESSITY OF ENDING THE ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EMBARGO IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST CUBA". Mr.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

Voice of America

US Defends Cuba Policy Amid UN Condemnation

The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the long-running U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in the face of another overwhelming U.N. General Assembly vote condemning American policy toward the island nation.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Buffalo News

Husband, wife plead not guilty to fraud

A husband and wife from Perry have entered pleas of not guilty in Cattaraugus County Court to insurance fraud and related charges involving a mobile home.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Buffalo Business First

Senecas launch $2.5M Cattaraugus project

The Seneca Nation of Indians have started work on their latest retail operation - a convenience store and gas station in the heart of its Oil Spring Territory.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

Hartford Courant

Susan Lynch, Vernon

Susan Lynch of Vernon has been interested in the art field since childhood. Originally from Cuba, New York , she was director of advertising for several years before moving to Connecticut.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Buffalo News

PeopleTalk: A conversation with alpaca breeders Tom and Doreen Lamoreaux

Since starting their alpaca breeding business in 1999, Tom and Doreen Lamoreaux have grown to love their fluffy animals whose fleece is softer than cashmere.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

The New York Times

City Room: Mystery of the Runaway Goats

The fourth goat in recent months was found wandering in the vicinity of the busy Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx over the weekend.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

New York Times

Yoani Sanchez: Virtually Outspoken in Cuba

Yoani Sanchez is a 34-year-old Cuban writer, editor and linguistics scholar who last week became the first blogger to win one of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes given by Columbia University for journalism that advances inter-American understanding.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

Pennlive.com

Lawyer: Hijack defendant sought return for years

A defense lawyer says a U.S. citizen accused of hijacking a plane from New York to Cuba in 1968 has been trying to return to the United States for years.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

CNN Money

Hijack arrest stirs memories of terror

One phone call brought the 41-year-old memory back to George Hopkins instantly, flooding him with the terror of having a .38-caliber pistol jabbed into his face.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

WNBC

Hijacking Fugitive Pleads Not Guilty

A man accused of helping to hijack a Pan Am flight out of John F. Kennedy Airport more than 40 years ago has pleaded guilty in a New York Federal Court FBI agents brought Luis Aramndo Pena Soltren back through JFK on Sunday -- the very airport where decades earlier he and three others boarded Pan Am flight 281 to Puerto Rico and hijacked it to ...

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Newsday.com

Suspect in 1968 Cuba hijacking pleads not guilty

Louis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, listens via a translator in court on Oct. 13, 2009 in NYC.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

New York Times

Judge Reduces Sentence for One of Cuban Five

A federal judge in Miami approved a lighter sentence Tuesday for one of five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying on anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

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CBS News

Cuba Provides Home to Suspects U.S. Seeks

Longtime fugitive Luis Armando Pena Soltren is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom after his arrest Sunday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport more than 40 years after he allegedly hijacked a plane and diverted it from Puerto Rico to Cuba.

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Mon Oct 12, 2009

CW11 New York WPIX-TV

Cuba denies blogger Yoani Sanchez permission to travel to US to accept top journalism prize

A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.

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Buffalo News

Election system flaws lead to policy problems

A year from now, it isn't going to matter who President Barack H. Obama picked to be the Democratic nominee for governor of New York, be it Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy or Eliot Spitzer.

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