1.   Castro skipped past the fact that even as a candidate, Clinton ardently supported a tightening of the longstanding embargo against Cuba.

2.   He lambasted the United States for its longstanding embargo against the island.

3.   That led to the decision last month to expand the longstanding embargo on direct oil imports to the United States from Iran.

4.   Washington, they said, has refused to authorize the special license that would have exempted them from the longstanding American embargo on trade and travel to Cuba.

5.   President Fidel Castro on Tuesday blasted the longstanding U.S. embargo against Cuba, accusing his foes of fighting growing opposition to the sanctions condemned by Pope John Paul II.

6.   Diplomats privately have accused Taylor of exaggerating the threat of the rebels in a bid to win lifting of a longstanding U.N. arms embargo.

7.   For his part, Castro would certainly welcome any encouraging words against the longstanding U.S. embargo on Cuba.

8.   For his part, Castro will certainly welcome any encouraging words against the longstanding U.S. embargo on Cuba.

9.   In January, at a ceremony honoring a Cuban surgeon, Mitterrand assailed the longstanding U.S. embargo of Cuba.

10.   President Fidel Castro blasted the longstanding U.S. embargo against Cuba, accusing his foes of fighting growing opposition to the sanctions condemned by Pope John Paul II.