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That leaves only two more things to be done before an invasion. One is to give the last twist to the trade embargo. A team of 88 international monitors will get its last members into position along Haiti's 186-mile land border with the Dominican Republic on Sept. 13. No one expects them to be able to stop the smuggling of food and gasoline, but the inspectors will have to be given time -- perhaps a month -- to fail. That would allow Washington to issue a final get-out-or-else ultimatum, contending that it had exhausted all the alternatives...
...hemispheric support for a possible invasion of Haiti: this week high-ranking officials will travel to a meeting of the Caribbean community in hopes of formalizing their approval. The obvious alternative is to open wide-ranging discussions with Castro aimed at swapping an end to the U.S. trade embargo for Cuban reforms leading to a freer economy and politics. Some Administration policymakers are known to favor the idea, but Clinton and his top aides are adamantly opposed. Defense Secretary Perry dismisses the idea as "a loser...
Administration aides have some intellectual arguments for maintaining a cold war stance toward Cuba. Washington officials insist that the U.S. embargo is not a significant cause of Cuba's economic desperation, which stems primarily from the loss of its Soviet lifeline and Castro's subsequent refusal to make free-market reforms. While the U.S. negotiates with other repressive communist regimes like Vietnam, North Korea and China, officials say these are cases where the U.S. has important strategic interests to safeguard: nuclear nonproliferation in the case of North Korea, a booming trade with China. In contrast, says an Administration official...
...easy to shrug off. Clinton is afraid that Republicans -- and plenty of Democrats -- will scorch him for cozying up to a communist devil. Yet that fear may be exaggerated: the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a powerful voice of conservatives, came out last week in favor of lifting the embargo, arguing that the best way to undermine communist regimes is to open them up to outside goods, exchanges of people and ideas. It worked with the Soviet empire. But Clinton does not yet dare risk taking that advice...
...ruler, General Sani Abacha, ordered their removal two weeks ago, stated in a newspaper advertisement that they would remain loyal to their union executives and continue the struggle for democracy. The declaration, carried in full-page newspaper ads in Lagos, came amid rumors that Washington is considering a trade embargo and a freeze of Nigeria's assets...