Word: embargoes
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...Vietnam veteran with three Purple Hearts, Kerry is no stranger to tough fights--which is what this battle with William Weld is. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the popular two-term Senator sponsored a bill to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam. But as a friend of working families, he also sponsored the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now he must persuade voters that he has done more from the Capitol than Weld has done from the Statehouse...
...five days after that, the White House sent a secret note warning Havana that the U.S. would react militarily if more planes were shot down. The following week a belligerent U.S. Congress passed the conservative Helms-Burton bill, imposing even more draconian sanctions than the 34-year-old U.S. embargo. Foreign-policy aides opposed the bill, which punishes foreign companies that trade with Cuba. But the President could taste victory in Florida and signed the bill on March...
...bands look to produce chart-topping singles, Counting Crows has a different approach. As with its last album, the band doesn't plan to release any songs from Recovering the Satellites as commercial singles in the U.S., although it will do so in the less frenzied European market. The embargo here is Duritz's way of keeping the radio play of his songs to a minimum; he feels Macarena-style overexposure of songs "ruins" bands and that the focus should be on the album as a whole. Moreover, it avoids tempting the fates or risking a backlash by appearing...
Tell the truth! Five hundred thousand Iraqi children have died of starvation and disease in the U.S. embargo against Iraq...
...embargo and the military action against Iraq are designed to keep Iraq weak so that the oil reserves of the region can be dominated by the large American oil companies. --Gary Sudborough