1.   We are taking further action to tighten the embargo.

2.   Extended the trade embargo against Iraq to cover interdiction of air traffic and took other steps to tighten the embargo.

3.   Among the steps to tighten the embargo, the most drastic is the new ban on sending cash to Cuba.

4.   But administration officials boast that they turned the tables on the Cuban leader by their decision to stop admitting Cuban boat people and to tighten the embargo.

5.   He did not announce measures to tighten the embargo, nor did he refer to State Department allegations that Cuba has bioweapons research.

6.   In Cuba, there was widespread expectation that Bush would further tighten the embargo by making it more difficult for US citizens to travel there.

7.   Reich played a role in writing the Helms-Burton Act, which tightens the embargo on Cuba.

8.   Russia also blocked a Security Council resolution last Friday that would have tightened the embargo against the Serbs.

9.   The American embargo was tightened last year with the imposition of U.S. sanctions against any foreign company that operates in Cuba.

10.   The House has passed the measure to tighten the embargo and it is now before the Senate.