51.   It was the sixth straight year that the General Assembly has called on Washington to end the embargo.

52.   Mayor Jerry Brown says his weeklong trip to Cuba will pay off if the United States ends its trade embargo of the communist country.

53.   Nethercutt said he also found a market economy in parts of Havana and heard four dissidents unanimously press for ending the embargo.

54.   Oman, a temporary member of the Security Council, has also said it will not support Russia and France if they press for ending the embargo.

55.   Other environmental groups have bitterly opposed ending the embargo, saying the continued practice of using dolphins to locate tuna is unacceptable.

56.   Republicans Jim Bunn and Wes Cooley joined with Democrats Peter DeFazio, Elizabeth Furse and Ron Wyden in voting to end the embargo.

57.   President Pierre Buyoya, departing for Burkina Faso and Nigeria, Wednesday said he hoped to win allies in his campaign to end an embargo on Burundi.

58.   Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., also voted in favor of ending the embargo.

59.   The Clinton administration has consistently opposed ending the embargo, and all major presidential candidates have taken similar stands.

60.   The groundwork for that happy day can be laid now by ending the embargo.