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CASTRO
HAVANA (AP) — Welcomed by shouts of “Long
Live the King!” Spain’s king toured the heart of com
munist Cuba’s capital yesterday,
bringing royalty to the center of rev
olution, as Fidel Castro marked a
victory over U.S. attempts to isolate
his government.
However, the summit that brought
King Juan Carlos and other European
and Latin American leaders to Havana p
also gave an unprecedented opportu- n
nity for Castro’s domestic foes to raise
their voices.
Ahead of the Ibero-American summit’s opening yes
terday, the Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers met
with prominent opposition figures — breaking a long
standing tradition of foreign leaders shunning dissidents
while on Cuba soil.
“I hope all of this is resolved, ” Spain’s Jose Maria Az-
nar said after meeting five dissident leaders yesterday,
including veteran human rights activist Elizardo
Sanchez. Aznar called the meeting at the Spanish Em
bassy “very interesting.”
The Nicaraguan, Panamanian and Mexican delega
tions held similar meetings over the weekend.
The Spanish branch of Amnesty International issued
a statement yesterday calling on the Spanish government
to intercede on behalf of inmates the group describes as
political prisoners.
Castro spent much of the day at the airport greeting
a steady stream of presidents and
Dressed in his trademark olive green
an especially warm embrace to his friendj
ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The royal couple and other leaders were |
terday evening for a state dinner with Caste|
of the Revolution.
This is the first time a Spanish monarch
in Cuba, which Spain conquered in 1511;
nearly 400 years. Juan Carlos and QueenS;
Aznar and his wife on a tour through theo
streets of Old Havana, built by the Spanish.
Walking along cobblestone streets,
waved to Cubans leaning from the iron-gnj
and shouting, “Long live the King.”
Uniformed police turned away a groupoil
ropean tourists in shorts and T-shirts—kl
wearing a Che Guevara baseball cap
Juan Carlos and Sofia arrived at Havana'I
ha roq u e-sty le ca t hedral.
“We are proud that the king and queem
us," Hortensia Rodriguez, 57, asshewailedft
of the king at the old Government PalaceotJ
de Armas, where viceroys once ruled ford
throne, said.
At the palace. City Historian Eusebio Li
Juan Carlos a throne built more than200t
a Spanish king who never arrived.
Despite invitations to try it out, Juan Car; j
even to touch it.
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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) —
The bodies of 24 people killed
when their flight struck a remote
mountain in northern Kosovo
were flown to Rome yesterday.
Most of the victims were human
itarian aid workers.
Residents of Pristina piled
flowers at the entrance of the
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gram, the Rome-based humani
tarian agency that chartered the
flight that crashed Friday.
French experts are leading an
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first half of 2000.
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zone of Kosovo near Urosevac fa
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Peacekeepers detained a Serb
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s
president won a second term, ac
cording to preliminary results yes
terday, defeating a Communist op
ponent who scared many voters
with his appeals for a return to the
Soviet past.
With all the votes
counted. President
Leonid Kuchma had
56 percent in Sun
day’s runoff ballot
and Communist Par
ty chief Petro Symo-
nenko had 38 per
cent, the Central
Elections Commis
sion reported. Voter
turnout was nearly
74 percent, it said.
Symonenko con
ceded defeat yester- ____________
day, though he al
leged major campaign violations
and vote-rigging by Kuchma’s
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to win, despite dissatisfy
his failure to improveUte
pressed economy.
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ing the first and second round (of
voting) demonstrates that Ukraine
has become a police state,” Symo
nenko told a news conference, ac
cusing Kuchma’s supporters of bal
lot-box stuffing and illegal
propaganda on election day.
He also said police, employers
and local leaders pressured voters to
support Kuchma at the polls.
Election commission chair
Mykhailo Riabets said an official
vote count would be released later
in the week.
post Soviet economic qn,
something many doubt he
able to do.
He has pledged to contin
ket reforms and a pro-Wesi
eign policy, and has promis
ropean future for Ukraine.
“We shall concentrate on
in one of the principal tore:
cy directions: European aft
Atlantic integration,” Foreig
ter Borys Tarasiuk saidyest
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measures to improve dom
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