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...majestic parent building, the Treasury Department -- and left footprints all over tables, evading a 24-hour guard and an elaborate computer security set-up. BTW: The office itself already had headaches, since a federal grand jury, the Treasury inspector general and congressional committees are probing its conduct in trade embargo cases.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Washington's reaction is cautious. Castro's little brother is a committed communist, not a free marketeer or democrat. The U.S. has demanded that Cuba enact political as well as economic reforms before lifting the 32-year-old trade embargo. Raul's technical fixes have so far been accompanied by increased repression of political dissidents. According to the Pentagon, a post-Castro Cuba cannot be truly capitalistic and democratic if the military is ingrained in the economy. But as other communist governments have learned, economic reforms often create a market for democracy. Raul and his generals may yet discover...
...retake Kupres, a town 60 miles west of Sarajevo, which had been overrun by Bosnian Serbs in 1992. The combined Croat-Muslim forces captured materiel abandoned by the fleeing Serbs. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly voted to pass a nonbinding resolution exempting the Bosnian army from the arms embargo imposed by the Security Council...
...Kuwait, which Baghdad has considered its 19th province since the days of the Ottoman Empire. (The British split the two countries in 1961, to Iraq's annoyance.) But the announcement didn't reassure Kuwaitis or attain Iraq's probable goal -- U.S. efforts to lift the crippling, three-year U.N. embargo. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers called the news "positive" but warned that the U.S. would not help Iraq unless it backs up this announcement by also dismantling itsweapons program, releasing political prisoners and returning property seized from Kuwait.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...this week, pro-life groups laid plans to trumpet the seven-year study's findings. In the opposition camp, pro-choice groups marshaled the statistics they needed to defuse the new findings. As the release date neared, editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned of the report, broke an embargo and rushed the results into print a week ahead of time...