New Republic And Cuban Agree to Settle Libel Lawsuit - New York Times The New York Times | September 17, 1996 | Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The leader of the most powerful anti-Castro Cuban exile group in the United States announced yesterday that he had agreed to settle a libel suit against The New Republic for an article in the political weekly magazine that called him a mobster. The magazine agreed to contribute $100,000 to the Cuban American National Foundation, or C.A.N.F., for a scholarship and to apologize for an article in the issue of Oct. 3, 1994, about the foundation's chairman, Jorge Mas Canosa. The article was headlined ''Clinton's Miami Mobster.''The foundation and the magazine said in a joint statement, ''The New…