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...deepened disillusionment, and in recent months serious riots have broken out in several cities. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel regard Iran as a rogue state that seeks to export terror, build nuclear weapons and sabotage the Middle East peace process. When the Clinton Administration recently imposed a complete economic embargo, the rhetoric was harsher than that against any other country. But however real the threat from Tehran may be, one factor is not widely understood: the revolution is decaying. Iran is already severely undermining itself...
Despite a House vote Thursday to lift the Bosnia arms embargo and a personal plea from the Bosnian prime minister in Washington today, the White House said President Clinton would promptly veto the measure if it reached his desk. "We don't believe the answer to the conflict in Bosnia is to escalate the war," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. The Administration believes that lifting the embargo would anger France, Britain and other countries with peacekeeping troops in the region, andtrigger a commitment of 25,000 American troopsto helpevacuate the peacekeepersand protect the Muslims from a predicted new Serbian...
...House voted 318 to 99to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, overriding objections that the unilateral action would inevitablydraw the U.S. into the Balkan war. The Clinton Administration opposes lifting the ban for that reason. "It will put Americans right in the middle of the hottest war today," Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) said in today's debate. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats believe that the U.S. must side with Bosnia's Muslim government against the Serbs.TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the resolution will likely squeak through the Senate; if so, President Clinton could stop the action only...
Confusion overa possible U.S. military role in Bosniagrew as President Clinton and Congress clashed. While Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole renewed his call for a complete withdrawal of all UN peacekeepers, as well as a lifting of the international arms embargo,Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blasted the President's statement that he may send U.S. Marines into Bosnia as "completely unacceptable." In the face of the withering criticism, Clinton backed away from his announcement yesterday that Marines might land if the UN requests their help in rescuing UN hostages, now saying instead that...
Until last week, placating Miami's rich, powerful and ferociously anti-Castro Cuban-American community was another piece of the Florida strategy, even though it votes overwhelmingly Republican. During his 1992 campaign Clinton backed a law that toughened the U.S. embargo on Castro. Last year he consulted with Cuban Americans closely before shunting the Cuban rafters to Guantanamo. But Clinton knows that Cuban Americans will be a lost cause in 1996. At the same time, recent polls, some commissioned by the White House, promise more Florida votes from being tough on immigrants than on Castro...