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...Menoyo enraged them further by meeting with Castro in Havana. It was one small move in the flirtation between Fidel and the U.S., testing the Cuban leader's willingness to make real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard...
Enter Castro, holding a carrot. Desperate for foreign currency, he has opened up large sectors of his economy to foreign investment, an opportunity that American companies-and Cuban-American entrepreneurs-can't take advantage of because of the embargo. Meanwhile, the children of older refugees, now grown, have little memory of Cuba and less attachment to the dream of returning...
When he ended a19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnamin February 1994,Clinton had said diplomatic recognition would have to await a "full and final accounting" of the then 2,238 Americans listed as missing. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns today declined to say whether Vietnam had provided that information, but cited "an increased level of performance...
America's actions have added to the economic problems. When Clinton announced the embargo on April 30, the rial collapsed. No other country has joined the embargo, and Iran will find other buyers for the $3.5 billion worth of oil that the U.S. purchased in 1994. But the boycott may hurt nonetheless: most of Iran's oil-production equipment is American, and badly in need of spare parts...
...widely advocated alternative, heavy air strikes plus the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia, almost certainly would not work either, except in the sense that it might enable the antagonists to fight until exhausted. Of course, some political-diplomatic settlement might still be patched together. But the only sure way to end the conflict is by overwhelming force, meaning up to 100,000 NATO troops prepared to stay for a long time, as advocated by Senator Richard Lugar and others. Is Bosnia worth it? A case can be made that it is, on moral grounds and as a deterrent...