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...also addressed the Bosnian conflict and said the U.S. would put before the U.N. Security Council a motion to lift the arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslims. He cautioned, though, that "right now we don't have the votes...
...luck and the U.N. embargo hold, the pain in Iraq will continue, as will the internal pressure on Saddam. The country is crippled. Such basic goods as medicine and farm supplies cannot come in, and an annual $15 billion worth of oil cannot go out. Malnutrition is rampant; last month the government cut food rations in half. "The people of Iraq are being destroyed by the sanctions," says an Iraqi now living in the U.S. "The social fabric is being torn apart. Iraq has been wounded for four years, and nobody cares...
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev renewed efforts to ease sanctions against Iraq, taking his plea to the United Nations. Kozyrev argued that the U.N., despite U.S. objections, should lift an oil embargo on Iraq by May in exchange for Saddam Hussein's recognition of Kuwaiti sovereignty. (He also said Russia had received advance information on last week's desert maneuvers and reports that "Iraq was not planning to attack Kuwait.") The U.S. response: U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said "Iraq must not be led to choose in an a la carte way" among U.N. conditions for lifting sanctions...
With the lifting of the economic embargo, the United States should be prepared to make a significant economic investment in Haiti, by providing external capital in the form of both private commercial sources and unrestricted government loans, and through the provision of tax breaks for companies who are willing to invest in Haiti...
President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...