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Bush for further isolation of Castro

US tightens embargo on Cuba
KENNEBUNKPORT. Maine. Apr 19: President George Bush called on Saturday for the further Isolation of Cuban leader Fidel Captro and tightened the US embargo on Cuba by closing American ports to ships doing business with Havana, reports Reuter.
Today we arc closer than ever to our goal of returning freedom to Cuba, Bush said In a written statement issued by the White House In Maine, where he Is spending the Easter holiday
Noting that the collapse of the former Soviet Union cost Havana economic and military subsides that had been as high as US dollar 5 billion annually. Bush boasted that Castro Is on his own.
"My administration will continue to press governments around the world on the need to isolate economically the Castro regime," he said
Together we will bring to Cuba a new era of freedom and democracy. Bush said.
An administration official said the Increasing pressure on Castro comes because the feeling Is that Cuba Is becoming Isolated more and more.
They've been cut off from aid from their former godfa ther. the Soviet Union 'and we (should) strike now while the irons'hot to strengthen up our embargo, he said
He Issued orders closing US ports to cargo ships that are negated In trade with Cuba.
The administration official said one alm of the president s action was to close a loophole In the US trade embargo Imposed in 1960 , following Castro's assent to power.
The official said certain Cuban goods have been sold in the United States because the, first were shipped to a third country and then sent to ths United States for sale.
Cuban sugar, for example, has been bought and dellverec to a third country and then resold in the United States.
Bush, in effect, also chal-
lenged Castro to allow direct flights of humanitarian aid to Cuba from friends and relativei of Cubans living in the United States
He ordered the treasury department to issue licenses that would permit direct flight of package mall betweer Miami and Havana — some thing Castro rejected In 1988.
Currently. Cuban expatriots In the United States charter an airplane that must fly to Mexico and then goes to Cube.
Those flights have cost US dollar 27 a pound for freight, while direct travel would reduce the expense to US dollar 5 per pound, an official said.
Meanwhile, US news and world report reported the United States privately warned Castro that It would view as an act of war a repeat of the 1980 Martel exodus of Cuban refugees when, at Havana's urging. 120,000 refugees fled to Florida.
It said the Bush admlnlstra Hon was worried that he mounting economic crisis in Cuba might prompt another outflow and it would be dlffi cult to sop since the refugees could* rightly claim political persecution.