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Subject: Re: Re: UUCP to USSR
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 14:18:51 EST
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quick!srg  (Spencer Garrett) writes...
) False and true, respectively.  U.S. citizens are permitted to go
) ANYWHERE, it's just that your U.S. passport isn't valid in countries
) with which we don't have diplomatic relations (like Cuba).

The restriction is not on passport usage.  There is an executive
order (signed by ronnie) which prohibits travel to Cuba.

The courts have upheld this order on the curious basis that it is a
foreign exchange restriction, intended to prevent real (US) money
from going to Cuba (they normally only get russian-bloc money, which
isn't even very good as toilet paper).

					Tanner Andrews