Word: embargoing
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...week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador to the U.N. "Words are cheap," she bluntly declared. "Actions...
...have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically Haitian irony that only when the embargo was over did the gas shortage begin...
...Cubans failed to get the U.S. to discuss lifting the 33-year-old trade embargo, but Booth reports the Cubans "are openly -- almost giddily -- optimistic about winning a change in Clinton's attitude after the elections." But U.S. negotiators told her they would first want signs of political reform, such as legalizing political opposition in the one-party state...
...cannot rein in his followers' demands, those fantasies could explode when they collide with reality. Haiti's economic, social and physical foundations are in ruins: "The ultimate developmental nightmare," says a $ State Department official. Even before the coup and the embargo, the country had the lowest per capita income, lowest life expectancy and highest mortality rate in the Americas. More than half the children are malnourished; tuberculosis and AIDS ravage the population. The nation's domestic output has declined every year since 1981. "Haiti is not on the way to becoming a basket case," said a recent unclassified report from...
Fortunately, he will get some economic help. The international trade embargo, enforced in June 1993, officially ended on Sunday. Even before the President took command, shipments of oil and gas were on their way to Haiti. Relief is also trickling back in, the beginning of what will eventually become a deluge of assistance. In the next 12 to 15 months, the United Nations plans to give $555 million. The U.S. is setting up a jobs program that in theory will put 50,000 Haitians to work by 1995. And the U.S. AID has set aside $140 million for jobs...