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Well then, negotiate some kind of deal with Fidel to replace the U.S. embargo that has been in place for 32 years -- and Clinton has just tightened? Castro coolly declared that he was ready and willing to talk, seizing the high ground in a game he largely controls. His ability to provoke or stop a flow of refugees almost at will gives him a power to bedevil Washington that he is using with relish. This week American and Cuban officials will resume low- level talks, focused strictly on migration, that were suspended last December. But as for wide-ranging negotiations...
...team of 18 U.S. soldiers flew to a remote outpost in the Dominican Republic, under orders to monitor its border with Haiti for potential violations of a U.N. trade embargo against that country. The G.I.s are to join teams of 14 Canadians and 15 Argentines, the leading edge of a multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile...
...second-ranking official in the State Department's Latin American bureau. The U.S. will offer to relax immigration standards for Cubans if Fidel Castro will stop the refugee flow. Alarcon, who succeeded in getting a majority of the U.N. General Assembly to condemn the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against his country, wants to widen the talks to include it. The unprecedented meeting, to open at the U.S. mission to the United Nations, could run three days...
Most experts argue that the embargo allows Castro to blame the U.S. for his failures and should be modified or dropped. "The trade embargo," contends Harvard professor Jorge Dominguez, "should be seen as a tool, not an altar in front of which we kneel." But for now, Clinton shows no sign of standing...
...compensate Americans for property seized during the revolution. Other countries trade freely with Havana and have long , since struck compensation deals for their own seized assets. But with Cuba's economy in sugar shock -- the yields in cane fields have slumped to levels not seen since the 1920s -- the embargo's boosters hope it will break Castro's back. "Ending the embargo is his No. 1 foreign policy priority," says a U.S. official. And what Castro wants, Washington opposes...