21.   Carter was quick to take the word of some Cuban official who said Cuba has not given any biological or chemical technology to other anti-American rogue states.

22.   Cuba policy is likely to remain unchanged, a prospect daunting to Cuban officials hoping for steps to an eventual normalization of relations.

23.   Cuban officials argued that because the sanctions had been a response to the exodus, they had no place now that the migration problem was under control.

24.   Cuban officials had accused the Mexicans of making them feel unwelcome, and said they suspected that the United States had pressured Fox to send the Cubans home.

25.   Cuban officials have been careful to portray the visit as strictly religious.

26.   Cuban officials have charged that two of the great-uncles now caring for Elian have been arrested for drunken driving, demonstrating their lack of suitability to care for him.

27.   Cuban officials have dismissed the document, presented to the National Assembly last week, as being funded and sponsored by Cuban exiles in the United States.

28.   Cuban officials said that short leaves were not unusual for prisoners, but denied that convicts had been released so they could leave the island.

29.   Cuban officials said the television series is partly an attempt to compensate for a recent drop-off in enrollment in professional programs.

30.   Cuban officials said they started the school as a gesture of international good will, and that they did not intend to politicize the students.