Word: burtons
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...threatening to punish foreign companies that trade with terrorist nations. It's a question of manners, said French President Jacques Chirac: "I don't think economic retaliation is most effective. Taking an entire population hostage is not elegant." At issue is the newly enacted Helms-Burton law, under which a foreign company could be sued in the U.S. for doing business with Cuba. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports from Lyon that Clinton's hands are tied by election-year politics. "The other G-7 leaders know that if not for the election, he might be able...
...island, hundreds of foreign companies, from Benetton to Toyota, have poured at least $5 billion into Cuba; and most U.S. companies would jump at the opportunity to invest--just as they are doing in Vietnam. Sponsored by two conservative Republicans, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the bill enjoyed strong support among Cuban Americans and the right. President Clinton, with an eye to re-election, signed it in March...
...allies are furious at what they see as unwarranted meddling in foreign trade. Canada's Minister of Foreign Trade, Arthur Eggleton, told TIME, "The U.S. is doing nothing more than using Helms-Burton to shoot at its friends instead of its enemies." Last week Canada made clear that it would soon retaliate against the U.S. for Helms-Burton. Mexico's President, on a state visit to Canada, denounced it, as did Italy's Prime Minister at a meeting with Clinton in Washington...
Firms such as Boise Cascade, United Brands, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Lone Star (a big cement company), as well as Coke, either opposed Helms-Burton quietly or ducked the issue. Observes Robert Muse, an international lawyer who represents Amstar, an American sugar company with $81 million in property claims in Cuba: "Helms-Burton does not have a lot of support among big American companies because it threatens to complicate their re-entry into Cuba as well as U.S.-Cuba relations after Castro...