1.   The agreement maintained a preferential price for Cuban sugar, lower than that of the previous five-year period, but higher than world prices.

2.   Ben Tyler, raised on a Cuban sugar plantation, became a Texas cowboy, and when hard times befell him, robbed banks.

3.   But Schumer said the bill would not allow any Cuban sugar into the United States.

4.   Cuban sugar production has declined steadily since the collapse of Communism.

5.   In addition, he said the company is talking with Cuban sugar producers about using their technology in making other uses of sugar cane other than producing sugar.

6.   Russia bought Cuban sugar and supplied Soviet oil and machinery at concessionary prices.

7.   The business was almost foolproof, guaranteed by a quota system in which the US paid six cents a pound for a preset tonnage of Cuban sugar.

8.   The Helms-Burton legislation would also bar countries from purchasing Cuban sugar and other products and then reselling them in the United States.

9.   The law also allows the banning from the United States of the officers of such companies and the barring of imported goods containing Cuban sugar and produce.

10.   The story encompasses strippers, political fixers, corrupt Cuban sugar barons and a wolf breeder.