Cuba

Closing Guantanamo Base, Cuba

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President Obama has appointed a Washington lawyer with increasingly responsible government experience to be the State Department’s new special envoy for closing Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Prison in Cuba.

Mr. Cliff Sloan has litigated cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including six U.S. Supreme Court arguments, numerous arguments in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and matters in trial and district courts across the country.

JLCO Goes to CUBA on 60 Minutes

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This Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 7P “60 Minutes” will broadcast the Jazz at Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis profile. In exclusive interviews, Marsalis and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) discuss the mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center – inspiring and growing audiences for jazz and its utilization in bringing people together around the world. The Emmy award-winning news program traveled with the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis on its residency at the Barbican Centre in London and a first time visit to Havana, Cuba.

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