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Virtual Cigar Shop Offers Legal Cuban Style Cigars
Company Press Release. SOURCE: Virtual Cigar Shop. Tuesday June 6, 8:03 am Eastern Time
BARRINGTON, Ill., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1963 Economic Embargo against Cuba made it illegal for any US citizen to purchase anything made in Cuba, including cigars. Now it is possible to purchase Cuban Style Handmade cigars over the Internet legally. Virtual Cigar Shop now offers 13 different
Cuban Style Cigars which may be purchased legally by United States citizens.
``With our 100 percent guarantee and our standard 2 day air shipments, you're sure to get the freshest 'Rich & Creamy' flavorful Cuban Style Cigars directly from our web site,'' Carl Bender, president of Virtual Cigar Shop said.
Cuban Cigars grown in Cuba are illegal for United States citizens, however the Virtual Cigar Shop grows their cigars in plantations located in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Dominican Republic. Even though they are grown with Cuban Seed, and handmade by Cuban Master Cigar Rollers, they are legal
because they are not grown in Cuba. The prices are better at Virtual Cigar Shop's cigars than for other Cuban Cigars.
Virtual Cigar Shop's mission is to keep prices low, enabling customers to purchase high-quality cigars at the lowest possible prices. Headquartered in Barrington, Illinois, Virtual Cigar Shop services customers all over the world with their cigars and over 80 different cigar accessories. For
more information visit www.vcigar.com .
: Carl Bender, CEO of the Virtual Cigar Shop, Inc., 847-381-2767, fax, 847-381-0956, web, http://www.vcigar.com , or email, [email protected]
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Cuban Baseball Star Seeking Asylum - Agent
MIAMI, 5 (Reuters) - A Cuban baseball star is on board a U.S. Coast Guard ship at sea after leaving his communist-run homeland by raft and is seeking political asylum in the United States, a U.S. sports agent said on Monday.
Andy Morales, a third baseman for the Cuban national team, was among 31 Cuban migrants intercepted at sea by a U.S. Coast Guard vessel south of the Florida Keys on Friday, Los Angeles-based agent Gus Dominguez told Reuters.
Neither the U.S. Coast Guard nor U.S. immigration officials would confirm the reports.
``We have learned he was picked up from a raft and he is on a Coast Guard cutter,'' Dominguez said. ``He has requested asylum through our attorneys. Our prime concern is to get him here.''
Morales had a home run, a double and three RBI in a 12-6 victory by the Cuban national team over the Baltimore Orioles in an exhibition game in May 1999.
A relative in Miami issued a plea for the player to be brought ashore and allowed to seek political asylum in the United States.
``He is well-known and if he is sent back to Cuba he will be in big trouble,'' Carlos Castillo, identified as Morales' father-in-law, told WTVJ-TV, the Miami NBC .
In the past Cuban baseball players have defected from the communist-ruled Caribbean island to seek their fortunes in the U.S. major leagues. They play for the equivalent of a few dollars a month in Cuba but can earn millions if they are good enough for the big leagues.
Perhaps the most famous recent defector was pitcher Orlando ''El Duque'' Hernandez, who left Cuba on a small boat in December 1997. He later signed a $6.6 million contract with the New York Yankees and pitched in the 1999 World Series.
His half-brother, Livan Hernandez, slipped away from a Cuban baseball team in Mexico in 1995 and became the Most Valuable Player in the 1997 World Series for the Florida Marlins.
The U.S. Coast Guard said it had picked up 46 people believed to be Cubans in four separate groups on Friday and Sunday, including 31 migrants and two suspected smugglers on a speedboat about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Dry Tortugas in the Florida Keys.
It declined to say if Morales was among the migrants, all of whom were on two Coast Guard cutters in the Florida Straits.
Dominguez, an agent with Total Sports International, said relatives of Morales had called his father-in-law in Miami last week to alert him that the baseball player had apparently left the island on a small boat.
The agent met Morales during the ``baseball diplomacy'' exhibition series between the Orioles and the Cuban team last year and talked with him about defecting at that time, Dominguez said.
``We talked briefly then. It was a topic of conversation, yes,'' Dominguez said.
Under the U.S. ``wet foot/dry foot'' immigration policy for Cubans, those who are interdicted at sea are usually returned to the island, unless their asylum claims are found valid, while those who reach U.S. soil are allowed to stay.
"Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher'' Goes Fishing With Donato Dalrymple, the Man Who Plucked Elian Gonzalez From the Ocean
Monday June 5, 2:40 pm Eastern Time. Company Press Release
LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 5, 2000--On Wednesday, June 7, ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher'' will feature Donato Dalrymple, the "fisherman" who rescued Elian Gonzalez, and his attorney, Larry Klayman.
Just last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Elian asylum status because he is too young. Barring a successful appeal, Elian and his father could be free to return to Cuba in as little as two weeks. Dalrymple recently filed suit against the United States for $100 million for violating his civil
rights.
Klayman is no stranger to lawsuits, having sued President Bill Clinton multiple times, including a recent attempt to disbar Clinton in Arkansas, and made a name for himself as a fervent Clinton hater.
Bill Maher has made his views very clear on the Elian saga and this is a show that should not be missed as fireworks are sure to fly.
Also booked are comedienne Mo'Nique (who is very vocal about Elian belonging with his father) and singer/songwriter Jill Sobule.
The show is scheduled to air on Wednesday, June 7. ``Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher'' airs at 12:05 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Note to editors: This show tapes on Tuesday, June 6, at 5 p.m. Interviews are available with Dalrymple, Klayman and Maher.
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