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...comprehensive" settlement that includes removal of the nominally communist Hun Sen government. Others, like former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Democratic Senator Robert Kerrey, think the war could end through regular government-to-government contact between Washington and Phnom Penh and the lifting of the U.S.-led economic boycott of Cambodia. The former vision may be grander; the latter has a far better chance of success...
...more serious drawback is Dinkins' reluctance to attack problems in a direct and forceful way. Since January, for example, the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has been roiled by a black boycott of two Korean grocery stores that began after a Haitian woman accused the Koreans of assaulting her in an argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling...
...public U.S. strategy is two-pronged. Militarily, Bush intends to stop Iraq at the Saudi border, guaranteeing by the sheer presence of American troops that an attack on Saudi Arabia is an attack on the U.S. The international boycott of Baghdad is in fact an economic offensive designed to squeeze Saddam so tightly that he is forced to withdraw from Kuwait. "Nobody can stand up forever to total economic deprivation," said Bush last week...
Even if Saddam finds someone to sell to him, he will soon run out of cash for supplies if the boycott of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil continues to hold. By week's end the embargo was nearly 100% complete, choking off all exports from both countries...
...Indians initiated the blockade to force the town of Oka to drop plans to expand a golf course onto land the Mohawks consider sacred property. An aborted police raid last month to break the boycott ended in the fatal shooting of an officer...