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There is only one reason the Cuban-American community cares about who the head of the Democratic party is. They have just one overriding political interest: the maintenance of the American economic embargo on Cuba and continued American hostility to the Castro regime...
Republicans moved against President Clinton'sforeign policy in Bosniatoday. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole introduced a bill to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnians -- a measure that, if passed, will likely endanger international efforts to bring peace to the region. Dole has long said that he wished the U.S. would unilaterally lift the embargo, so that Muslims could arm themselves against the Serbs' aggression. However, observers have warned that lifting the embargo would have the effect of destroying the on-again, off-again truce that currently exists and encourage the Serbs to start mass killings again. The United Nations...
Perhaps there should have been no shock. Long before last week's meeting in Budapest of the 53-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, there had been abundant warnings that U.S.-Russian relations were turning sour. Russian officials had tried unsuccessfully to get the U.S.-designed embargo on Iraq's oil sales lifted and had resurrected Moscow's veto in the U.N. Security Council to block an American-backed resolution on Bosnia...
Some of the frictions result simply because certain Russian national interests clash with U.S. policies. Russia has been trying to get the embargo on Iraqi oil sales lifted because the oil revenue is the only way Iraq can pay for arms it buys from the old U.S.S.R., and Moscow needs the money. Financial pressure also underlies Moscow's insistence that any Western companies drilling for oil in Azerbaijan build a pipeline through Russia, a demand that has aborted some promising deals. The U.S. responded calmly to Yeltsin's announcement on Friday that he had authorized the army...
According to another secret memo TIME has obtained, which Perry sent Lake later in the week, Perry wants to have NATO assume complete command of any evacuation of peacekeeping troops should that become necessary. It might, if Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to lift the arms embargo unilaterally and mount aggressive NATO air strikes passes Congress. NATO could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance...