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Shahzad A. Bahatti, who was tabling for the group yesterday, said he feels that students should rally for a lifting of the international arms embargo against the Bosnian government...
Cuban negotiators began their third round of "migration" talks with U.S. officials in New York today amid worries that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms' efforts to tighten a U.S. embargo could spark a new boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked...
...believes Iran is sending weapons to Bosnia's Muslim-led government in violation of a U.N. embargo on shipping arms to thecivil war-ravaged Balkans. But the Clinton Administration would not confirm today's Washington Post report that says Iran has delivered "hundreds of tons" of weapons to Bosnian forces. And the Administration disputed the Post's assertion that the U.S. has tacitly approved of the shipments.TIME Defense correspondent Mark ThompsonsaysWashingtonis well aware that a large number of small arms have been pouring into Bosnia, some in U.S.-built military cargo planes. He says it's easy...
Cuba has told the State Department that it might unleash anew wave of refugeesin retaliation against GOP efforts to tighten the three-decade-old U.S. embargo on the country. The Washington Post reported today that Cuba told U.S. diplomats that itsrefugee flowwould become "difficult to control" if Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) succeeds with a bill that would punishforeign companies that do business with Cuba.TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays the Helms bill is expected to pass, but Clinton Administration officials plan to forestall a Cuban crisis by promising not to enforce it. Administration officials...
...White House is considering a ban on all U.S. trade with Iran to punish efforts to build a nuclear arsenal there. ButTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the Clinton Administration previously has been opposed to an all-out embargo because the business likely would be diverted to firms in other countries that compete with American companies. McAllister expects President Clinton to opt for narrower restrictions. Clinton is expected to move swiftly on various options, including proposals to ban sales of computers and equipment with military applications to Iran, or toban importing oilfrom Iran for sales abroad -- a $4 billion market. Purchasing...