1.   Over two days of debate, leaders in the communist-dominated National Assembly insisted they would not give foreign capitalists a free hand.

2.   Anuchart advised that the promotion of a strong, self-reliant society was the only way out from the dominance of foreign capitalists.

3.   But Cuban officials insisted during the often-contentious two-day National Assembly session that they are not going to give foreign capitalists a free hand.

4.   Communist leader Gennady Zhuganov regularly tells foreign capitalists and diehard communists he will give both what they want.

5.   Saddled with a stagnant economy, parliament took up the soul-searching issue Monday of how far Cuba can go to satisfy wary foreign capitalists without sacrificing communist control.