Word: embargoing
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...communism seemed to be collapsing elsewhere in the world, Vietnam flung open its doors to foreign investment. The economy has been growing at an annual rate of 7% to 8% over the past three years. In February 1994, when the U.S. dropped its 19-year trade embargo, aid and investment began to flood...
...linked to progress on the POW/MIA issue." That fixation has disrupted a diplomatic mating dance between the U.S. and Vietnam that had, until last year, brought both partners tantalizingly close to consummating their ticklish relationship. Clinton's February 1994 decision to lift the 19-year-old Vietnam trade embargo paved the way for full normalization, a move for which the State Department has been quietly preparing ever since. But goaded by a core of MIA families capitalizing on the President's reluctance to alienate those who lost relatives in a war he avoided fighting, the White House has now brought...
...others said lifting the embargo would result in more unnecessary killing and violence...
...fell that there isn't enough information about whether lifting the embargo would bring about more killing in Yugoslavia," Green said...
...letter to President Clinton urges him to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia-Herzegovina immediately while the letter to Boutros Ghali asks the Secretary General to support more funding for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in Bosnia...