Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision is good news but it could have been much better news," said Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth yesterday afternoon. "It would have been better if President Clinton had promised to stop using the island once...
...Under Clinton's plan, bombing on Vieques would resume this spring at a considerably reduced level and with only dummy bombs instead of live ammunition...
...Puerto Rico's part, Clinton offered it $40 million, which includes phasing out all training on the island within five years...
...Harvard, Hans S. Perl-Matanzo '01--a native of Puerto Rico and head of the Global Student Movement for Peace in Vieques Now--said he was equally disappointed with Clinton's decision...
...years Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise...