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...officials, responding to a New York Times report that Iraq may be selling 200,000 barrels of oil a day in violation of a strict U.N. embargo, acknowledged some leakage but claimed the sanctions were generally holding up. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said U.S. estimates of Iraqi oil exports are "in the neighborhood of 80,000 to 100,000 barrels a day," noting that Iraq was selling a far more lucrative 2.5 million barrels a day prior to its 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent embargo. But he added: "It is nonetheless troubling that Iraq is finding...
Robinson's efforts compelled democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to tightenthe trade embargo against Haiti and reverse therefugee policy...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) was talking pretty tough today when he introduced a bill to tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba and yank financial aid to any former Soviet country that helpsPresident Fidel Castro. Helms said he will not be satisfied until Castro is gone. "Let me be clear," the senator said, reverting to Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many...
Pentagon officials believe the Vietnamese wanted to break the impasse with Washington over the missing service members in order to get the U.S. to lift its trade embargo but had backed themselves into a corner with their earlier declarations that no prisoner records existed. McConnell suggests that Hanoi needed an unofficial way to turn over the material and saw Schweitzer as a ``face-saving conduit...
...officials later used Schweitzer's documents and photos to force Hanoi to allow a Defense Department team to search the entire prisoner archive. Last February President Clinton lifted the trade embargo against Vietnam; since then more than 70 U.S. companies have opened offices there. ``Relations were in the Ice Age only five years ago, and now the two sides are normalizing,'' Schweitzer told Time...