Politically diverse group calls for ties with Cuba GOP ex-congressman, business leaders, former Texas governor on panel 01/24/2003 By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - A bipartisan advisory group, including a former Republican congressman, business leaders and influential Cuban-Americans, issued a report Thursday that renewed calls for the Bush administration to break with what they called 41 years of a failed policy. The conclusions of the 16-page report, "U.S.-Cuba Relations, Time for a New Approach," aren't unique. But the makeup of the commission and the people articulating the message of normalizing ties with Cuba are new....