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...that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families of the 270 bombing victims, has twice asked the U.N. Security Council to add oil exports to its embargo against Libya...
...internecine conflict comes at a time when Saddam's political standing has begun to falter, say U.S. intelligence officials. Last week Washington succeeded in persuading the U.N. Security Council to continue, at least until May, the near total economic embargo that Baghdad desperately wants lifted. Middle-class Iraqi families are drawing from savings to pay for food. The dinar, which traded a year ago at 150 to the dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There...
...that the fates oftwo Americans being detainedin Baghdad will be linked to the lifting of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Saleh told reporters that the Americans, who were arrested after they crossed the border from Kuwait, are "safe" and "well-treated." Then he criticized the U.N. for maintaining a trade embargo that was imposed on Iraq when its army invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saleh said Iraq has not decided whether to try David Daliberti, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Bill Barloon, 39, a New Hampton, Iowa native, for illegally crossing the border. The crime is punishable by up to 20 years...
...violations that have taken place during the 36 years of his dictatorship: the torture and execution of thousands of dissidents, as many as 5,000 political prisoners still in Cuban jails, and the organization, training and support of terrorists throughout Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The U.S. embargo has solid moral grounds...
...going to break the chains that kept most of the Cuban citizenry in poverty, but his true colors came to light very quickly. Until Castro returns Cuba to its people and lets them decide on a form of government, the U.S. cannot consider dropping its long-established trade embargo. It would be a hypocritical travesty for us to ``forgive and forget.'' Let's not crawl into bed with the world's oldest dictator. He is far from harmless...