The House dealt an election-season setback to President
Bush on Wednesday by voting to overturn restrictions his administration
has issued on the gift parcels that Americans can send to family
members in Cuba. The 221-194 vote was won by a coalition in which
Democrats were joined by nearly four dozen farm-state and free-trade
Republicans to rebuff the president. [more] Pictured above:
More than 200,000 Cubans took part in a rally last week in front of the
US Interest Section in Havana to protest Bush's foul new sanctions
against Cuba. [more]
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