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...President Mohamed Khatami, who is committed to normalizing Iran's relations with the West and whose supporters won a landslide victory in recent parliamentary elections, to begin a dialogue with Washington. Before his recent electoral victory, Khatami, with an eye cast over his right shoulder toward his fiercely anti-American conservative opponents, had rebuffed U.S. efforts. But anti-American sentiment in Iran has a basis in the country's history - the U.S. brought Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi to power and then helped keep him there for decades before Iranians finally took to the streets to overthrow him. Hard-liners among...
...island were eased, paving the way for top U.S. officials to visit Havana. But then the Elian Gonzalez imbroglio erupted, a case that has increased passions for both keeping and easing restrictions. And now Operation False Blue will surely help the pro-embargo lobby as well as hardening anti-American attitudes among Castro's top brass...
...case it is the Cuban government and the large Cuban-exile community in Florida who are reaping the benefits of a family tragedy. That situation became even more apparent Monday as U.S. negotiators prepared to meet with their Cuban counterparts for biannual talks on immigration amid a frenzy of anti-American protests sparked off by the case of the six-year-old Gonzalez, who was found floating off Florida after his mother and stepfather drowned in an attempt to reach...
Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush...
...Bove founded the radical Confederation Paysanne and began launching targeted commando actions in support of traditional French agriculture. Bove denies that his movement is specifically anti-American. "Our struggle is not against America but against uncontrolled globalization," he told TIME. "McDonald's is a symbol of industrial food production. Whether such products are American or French, the effect is the same: the destruction of traditional farming, different cultures and ways of life." He blames the European Union as well as the U.S. for "the imperialism with which they aid agricultural exports." Arguing for the right of every country to "choose...