Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public cynicism for politics, criticizing the political establishment for being hypocritical is almost trite. In the case of the Clinton administration's contradictory trade policies with Cuba and China, however, the charge of hypocrisy is warranted. While both countries are guilty of flagrant human rights violations, the prized "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) trade status has been bestowed upon the far more culpable Chinese...
...that the days of exploding cigars are over--if we are ever to unseat Castro, these nations say, we must make economic love, not war. They are right to point out the discrepancy which exists in U.S. trade policy, wrong to criticize the U.S. government's stalwart position on Cuba. Conscience calls upon the United States to continue to oppose Cuba for depriving its citizens of free expression, even if the price is standing alone among the nations of the world...
...Jesse Helms, who had signaled which candidates would never get past his committee. Aides say the North Carolina Senator always had a soft spot for Albright as a fellow full-throated anticommunist. He was delighted that she had ousted U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, loved her attacks on Cuba. But Albright wasn't taking chances. One day, as a favor to a friend, Helms called her in New York and asked if she would come to North Carolina to speak at a foundation luncheon...
...tough on human rights. Actual translation: she's going to talk very tough on human rights to tin-pot dictators but keep the tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro should not expect any change of U.S. policy under a woman who denounces Cuba as an "embarrassment to the western hemisphere." Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system." The high-wire act for Albright will be to speak firmly enough to satisfy U.S. critics who charge that trade...
...with American tourists and posing for photos with French schoolchildren. Nor did her punchiness wane inside government buildings. Capitalizing on her reputation for straight talk, the Secretary of State told Italian leaders yesterday that she's disturbed by Italy's cozy commercial relationship with "rogue states" Iran, Libya and Cuba. At a press conference in Bonn, Albright took on the high-profile debate over German treatment of the Church of Scientology, dismissing as "historically inaccurate and totally distasteful" criticism that the measures being taken against Scientologists are reminiscent of Nazi treatment of the Jews. Stopping next in Paris, Albright, speaking...