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UNITED NATIONS--Cuba yesterday withdrew its resolution seeking an end to the U.S. economic embargo against the island nation. Havana's ambassador angrily accused the United States of intimidating the measure's wouldbe supporters...
...Washington not only has the intention of persisting in an illegal and criminal blockade of Cuba, but also of blocking a discussion by the General Assembly," Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcon told the 166-nation assembly...
...weeks ago, the vice president of the Russian Federation, Alexander Rutskoi, quietly informed U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss about an early version of a speech that had been prepared for Boris Yeltsin to deliver last Monday, on the eve of Gorbachev's departure for Madrid. The draft declared the U.S.S.R. defunct and Yeltsin's government the protector of 25 million ethnic Russians in the outlying republics...
Well, the abduction was apparently a retaliation for the death of a Sikh extremist and the arrest of two others in the attempted assassination of Julio Ribeiro, 62, the Indian ambassador to Romania, in Bucharest two months ago. Ribeiro, who was shot while walking with his wife in a suburb of the Romanian capital, has long been a target because of his get-tough "bullet-for-bullet" policy toward Sikh separatists during his two-year tenure as police chief of Punjab. The kidnappers' current demands, however, strike much closer to home. They are seeking the release of three Sikhs...
...typically, the man of contradictions surprised everyone. Formerly considered adamant and intransigent, he moderated his militant tone as President. He spoke to the Haitian generals of the love he felt for them -- even as he retired them. He fell into a cordial relationship with the American ambassador after years of criticizing the U.S. government. For seven months he performed the high-wire trick of remaining faithful to his poor and clamorous constituency while trying to stay in power...