21.   The president acknowledged at the news conference Sunday that the continuing American embargo against Cuba had been criticized by many Latin American leaders during private meetings.

22.   To one of those questioners, Clinton defended the American embargo against Cuba.

23.   Washington, they said, has refused to authorize the special license that would have exempted them from the longstanding American embargo on trade and travel to Cuba.

24.   Which will end first, the designated hitter rule in the American League or the American embargo on Cuba?

25.   While the Miami Cubans demand no lifting of the American embargo, they constantly send supplies and money to the island, valued at billions of dollars annually.

26.   Yet the world at large regards the American embargo on Cuba as pointless, and says so openly.

27.   Castro has been flooded with requests from U.S. businessmen anxious to discuss future deals despite the American economic embargo against his Communist island nation.

28.   Cui noted that the U.S. policy has been roundly criticized worldwide and said support for the American economic embargo on Cuba has been dwindling.

29.   Frustrated as they watch foreign companies making deals with Cuba, American business executives have increased pressure on the Clinton administration to end the American economic embargo.

30.   It was the fifth straight year that the General Assembly has approved a resolution against the American embargo.