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...exactly opposite of how Reagan worked. He knew the military thrust should follow the diplomatic. He knew that to be effective, the lineup against Saddam had to be perceived as more than just the rich West against a poor ( Arab." Within days, worldwide economic sanctions were in place: a boycott of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil and a freezing of those nations' assets...
...phone call was especially important. Before the crisis, Japan imported 12% of its oil from Iraq and Kuwait. Nonetheless, Bush persuaded Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to join the boycott of Iraqi crude. "People are always giving Bush guff for his first-name strategy with world leaders," says an Administration official. "But then he calls Tokyo and gets Kaifu to go along with the oil embargo, a step that may not be in Japan's self-interest. To say we were surprised is to put it mildly." Equally impressive was the President's engineering of United Nations sanctions against Iraq...
...vote also follows decisions by other world powers to impose similar sanctions on the Iraqis. The United States, Japan and the European Community have already voted to boycott all Iraqi and Kuwaiti imports, while both the Soviet Union and China announced last week that they will halt arms shipments to Iraq...
Since his election in 1986, Waldheim has wooed only one other Western head of state to Austria, Cypriot President George Vassiliou, who visited Vienna in early July. With two years left in his term and with the boycott against him broken, Waldheim might yet have other callers. But after his encounter with Havel, he just might prefer his solitude...
Stallone said the guild is planning to vote onwhether it will bring a suit against the city. Ifit decides not to sue, she said, it might ask fora city-wide referendum on whether the performersmay play in the excluded area, or it mightotherwise decide to boycott the city altogether...