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Senate Democrats, in a growing challenge to President Clinton and European allies, lined up behind Republican leader Bob Dole as the Senate voted 69-29 to end the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The bipartisan clamor grew despitea NATO agreementjust hours earlier to seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured...
Defying President Clinton and the international community, Senate Republicans this evening neared passage of a vote to lift the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The move, approved in the House earlier this year, would be an affront to Clinton and the U.N. Security Council, which imposedthe arms embargoon the former Yugoslavia in 1991, hoping to prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built...
American business, which is solidly behind rapprochement, will not get much from it beyond what Clinton's lifting of the trade embargo achieved last year. The real fruits would come from giving Vietnam most-favored-nation trading status. Still, the Vietnamese seem eager to plow ahead. Said Deac Jones of Connell Bros. Co., a distributor of U.S. consumer goods in Vietnam: "The majority of people here are very pro-American. If you have the exact same brand product, a shampoo made in the U.S. and the Philippines, they will pay more...
...commitments; a critical problem here is who decides whether and how Belgrade is in violation. Milosevic initially suggested that reimposition required a unanimous decision of the U.N. Security Council -- which would mean that Russia, the only major power on the Security Council friendly to the Serbs, could block an embargo resumption. One Bildt idea under discussion is that sanctions renewal could be imposed by three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council rather than by unanimous decision; whether such a change in voting procedure is legal remains in question, but as a senior U.S. Administration official puts...
...calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants reimposition to be in the hands of the Security Council, where the U.S. is sure a Russian veto would scuttle a renewal of the embargo should that become necessary. The Clinton Administration wants to preserve as much unilateral control over the reimposition process as possible and envisages suspension of the embargo in stages, one of which would be Bosnian Serb acceptance of the Contact Group peace plan. The Administration also needs a deal that...