Raul Castro: Cuba Open to Normalized Relations; the Acting President of the Island Nation Warns U.S. Against Making Any Threats

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HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, said his country remains open to normalized relations with the United States. But he warned the Bush administration in his first comments since assuming power that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure.

Castro also said in Friday editions of the island's Communist Party newspaper that he had mobilized tens of thousands of troops in response to what he called aggressive U.S. acts, including stepped- up radio and television broadcasts to the island, and an $80 million plan to hasten the end of the Castros' rule.

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Raul Castro: Cuba Open to Normalized Relations; the Acting President of the Island Nation Warns U.S. Against Making Any Threats

"Some of the empire's war hawks thought that the moment had come to destroy the Revolution this past July 31," the da...

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