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Bush signs order to tighten travel restrictions to Cuba

President George W. Bush on Thursday signed an order to tighten travel restrictions to Cuba, accusing the Cuban government of taking moves to destabilize relations with the United States.

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President George W. Bush on Thursday signed an order to tighten travel restrictions to Cuba, accusing the Cuban government of taking moves to destabilize relations with the United States.

The order would expand the government's authority to prevent unauthorized vessels from the U.S. to enter Cuban territorial waters. Under the order, the U.S. authorities would be empowered to inspect any vessel in the U.S. territorial waters and take other steps if necessary.

Meanwhile, Bush said that over the past year, the Cuban government took a series of steps to destabilize relations with the U.S., such as threatening to rescind migration accords with the U.S. and close the U.S. interests section in Cuba and claiming the U.S. intended to invade Cuba.

Bush said the Cuban government, headed by Fidel Castro, "has since 1959 maintained a pattern of hostile actions contrary to the U.S. policy interests."

The move was in sharp contrast with the White House announcement on Thursday of lifting the U.S. travel ban to Libya for its compliance of destroying its weapons of mass destruction.

Cuba has been under US embargo for over four decades.

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