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Cubans surfing the World Wide Web might have the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Endowments to thank, say three anti-Castro Republican members of Congress from Miami-Dade County, Fla. Heinz Endowments Chairman Maxwell King immediately wrote off the accusation, made Tuesday during a news conference in Miami, as "a cynical political stunt predicated on a lie." Teresa Heinz Kerry, of Fox Chapel, wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, heads the Heinz Endowments. The members of Congress making the allegations -- Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, all Cuban-Americans and all of Miami-Dade -- accused the Heinz Endowments of indirectly helping the...

Havana, Jul 9 (EFE).- Cubans will no longer have to find pirated copies of the controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the island's illegal "private video libraries" because the government has decided to debut Michael Moore's documentary across the country this month.

"The Republicans have allowed a communist dictatorship to flourish eight jet minutes from our borders! We must support anti-Castro fighters. So far these freedom fighters have received no help from our government." -- Democratic presidential candidate, Oct. 1960 "George Bush and the Republicans in Washington have run the most inept foreign policy in the modern history of this country! It has been a failure!" -- Democratic presidential Candidate, April 2004. No, friends, it didn't start with this campaign. Indeed, Kerry apes his idol (JFK) faithfully. Problem was, during the '60 presidential campaign Kennedy left out the sly smile, the shifty...