As pope visit nears, spotlight on Cuba's cardinal  PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press Published:  HAVANA (AP) -- When a young parish
priest named Jaime Ortega stepped out of a Cuban detention camp
in the spring of 1967, at the height of the Communist
revolution's attempt to stamp out religion, his father handed
him a one-way ticket to Spain and urged his son not to look
back.  But Ortega refused to go.  Forty-five years later and now
a cardinal, Ortega heads the island's Roman Catholic church,
which has returned from the wilderness to become the most
influential independent institution in the country. In recent
years, the 75-year-old clergyman has negotiated with President
Raul Castro for the release of political prisoners, given the
government advice on economic policy and allowed church
magazines to publish increasingly frank articles about the need
for change.  And after Pope Benedict XVI pays a pre-Easter
visit, Ortega will have played a part in getting two consecutive
pontiffs to turn their spotlight on one of