41.   Cemex produces cement in a joint venture with the Cuban government at a plant claimed by Stamford, Connecticut-based Lone Star Industries.

42.   Canada, like the European Union and Mexico, strongly opposes a U.S. law that punishes foreign companies that use assets the Cuban government seized from U.S. citizens.

43.   Christmas is back in Cuba at least in part because technology has improved, the Cuban government says.

44.   Clinton blamed the Cuban government for shooting down two private U.S. planes.

45.   Clinton resisted, however, several possible measures that might have further isolated the Cuban government.

46.   Cooperation with the Cuban government was necessary to make arrangements to bring the two grandmothers to see Elian, a well-meaning but useless gesture.

47.   Critics blasted the measure, saying it would require too much cooperation from the Cuban government, and could even be illegal.

48.   Cuban government officials in New York and Washington did not return calls seeking comment on the agreement.

49.   Cuban government officials said the other six Cubans just overslept.

50.   Critics argue that Cuban government data on test scores and literacy rates are pure boosterism.