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When the European Union proposed a plan to isolate and weaken Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic by delivering heating oil directly to towns run by his opponents, U.S. diplomats were skeptical. They said the oil - which Serbia badly needs this winter because of the Western embargo - would either fail to reach its recipients or end up in Milosevic's hands...
Havana and Washington got their first glimpse Tuesday of what a post-embargo Cuba may look like. Fidel Castro donned a business suit to revel in the presence of the heads of state of Spain, Portugal and 14 Latin American countries at an Ibero-American summit on the once-isolated island. But many of his guests pointedly chastised the Cuban leader over human rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation...
...Even for the U.S. - the only country of any consequence that maintains an embargo of Cuba - the policy may be a fading reality, maintained primarily out of concern for the electoral clout of the anti-Castro lobby in swing states such as New Jersey and Florida. But public opinion may have swung the other way, with a Reuters survey in the spring finding two thirds of Americans opposed to the embargo. Moves to end it are growing ever bolder and more numerous: Washington has relaxed restrictions on direct flights to the island, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue...
When the staff at one of those stuffy medical journals breaks the embargo on one of their articles, you know they're onto something really unusual. And so on Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine broke the news that a widely available prescription drug has been found to drastically reduce deaths at the hands of America's number one killer - heart disease. In a rush to make the findings available to doctors, the journal preempted a report scheduled to run in January by posting the findings on its web site. The report, based on a large-scale study...
...doubled in the era of U.N. sanctions, will only add to the disquiet of Washington?s Arab and European allies over U.S. Iraq policy (even if, as Washington insists, much of that suffering is caused by Saddam?s failure to distribute humanitarian supplies allowed through under the embargo). In addition, as a senior administration official told the Times, unless the U.S. and its allies are prepared to send in ground troops, the best Washington can hope for is to contain - rather than overthrow - Saddam?s regime. And containment is a strategy pursued in the news briefs rather than the headlines...