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MIAMI (AP) _ A federal judge has set a Monday trial date for the claims of a dozen people who said they were wrongly assaulted by federal officers during the raid that removed Elian Gonzalez from his family's home. The plaintiffs say they were innocent bystanders who were gassed and beaten outside the home during the early morning raid on April 22, 2000. U.S. District Judge Michael Moore set the trial date Friday. "I think the public's going to be surprised that elderly people were gassed while praying the rosary," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which represents 11...

HAVANA -- The National Assembly president attacked President Bush's vision for Cuba on Monday as millions of workers across the island got two days off to watch a televised special session called to enshrine socialism as "untouchable." Ricardo Alarcon referred to Bush supporters in Miami's Cuban exile community and declared that the American president wanted the communist island to return to the brutality and corruption of pre-revolutionary Cuba. "Does Mr. Bush really think that he will return to sink us in this hell of injustice?" Alarcon asked. "Does he imagine for a moment that we are going to turn over...