21.   However, the Sessions Court did not make a consequential order to release the seized properties.

22.   Polish courts already have awarded some claimants financial compensation for illegally seized property.

23.   Returning seized property proving difficult in post-communist Poland.

24.   Some former owners have gotten courts to order the government to pay compensation for illegally seized property.

25.   Some seized properties were leased to politicians and top officers in the military and police.

26.   The allusion to Helms-Burton, which punishes companies that invest in seized U.S. properties in Cuba, was in the original draft but later disappeared.

27.   The Clinton administration, like those before it, insists that Castro not only adopt political reforms but also compensate U.S. companies and private citizens for seized properties.

28.   The government wants to pay compensation in bonds or return half of the seized property, if it still exists and has no new private owner.

29.   The land program also has been plagued by delays, mismanagement and corruption, with some seized properties going to politicians and their cronies.

30.   The government tried to compensate for the damage by restoring and reopening churches and temples and returning hundreds of millions of dollars worth of seized property.