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...recruiting process picks up in July after an athlete's junior year of high school--when the NCAA allows coaches to begin telephoning and visiting recruits at home. (For football, the embargo on personal contact does not lift until August...
...speech at the event, Omoruyi called for an oil embargo, "At the same time as the U.S. condems [General Abacha's] regime it funds his bank accounts," Omoruyi said. The U.S. consumes 50% of Nigeria's oil exports...
...misery and squalor to see Fidel feted in New York by the powers that be. His acceptance by them could have set back the prospects for freedom and democracy in Cuba by five years." Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms vowed to renew efforts to make the embargo even tighter...
...soon--Bill Clinton will not want to risk the votes of the fiercely anti-Castro Cuban-American community in Florida. But no matter how bad Castro's record on human rights and democracy may be, there is momentum in that direction. Clinton has quietly relaxed some travel restrictions. The embargo is cruel, say those who oppose it, and with the end of the cold war, it is a relic. Trade with Cuba, they argue, would open the country up to democratic influences...
FIDEL CASTRO No embargo on his star status in Harlem, along Wall Street...