61.   Cuban authorities also said there were legal and technical problems with the proposal, giving it little hope for success.

62.   Cuban authorities earlier this month arrested a Salvadoran who reportedly confessed to the bombings, including one that killed an Italian businessman.

63.   Cuban authorities have claimed the two detainees acted on behalf of American interests, gathering information and providing instructions to anti-communist dissidents.

64.   Cuban authorities have said they would like to see the money benefit victims of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated a wide swath of Central America late last year.

65.   Cuban authorities occasionally round up prostitutes and put them on buses back to their provincial hometowns.

66.   Cuban authorities said they did not want to hide anything from Pope John Paul II, who is on a five-day visit ending Sunday.

67.   Cuban authorities say both men were hired by a Cuban exile, Luis Posada Carriles, to plant the bombs in order to hurt tourism on the island.

68.   Cuban authorities were angered by that lawsuit, and by attempts to seize Cuban funds from telephone companies operating long-distance phone service between the two countries.

69.   Defense lawyers for the five accused told Lenard they tried to get Cuban authorities to let the witnesses come to the United States.

70.   Delegation members and Cuban authorities reportedly have agreed not to talk to the media about negotiations until an announcement is made, perhaps on Monday afternoon.