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SEPTEMBER 09, 2007

Dodd: end Cuban embargo

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Chris Dodd would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the island if elected, he said Saturday.The Democratic senator from Connecticut also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down TV Marti, a U.S. government-run television station that broadcasts to Cuba."Other than the war in Iraq, no other American policy is more broadly unpopular internationally," Dodd said of the United States' policy toward Cuba.

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