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...embargo helps those it was designed to hurt...
BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO: Within half an hour on May 12, the Senate voted twice to lift the arms embargo widely believed to be handicapping the Bosnian Muslim side in the Balkan conflict. The outcomes were numerically identical -- 50 to 49 -- but the vote lineup was quite different...
...week's end the President decided to resume high-level talks with North Korea, prompted by assurances from the IAEA that no fuel had yet been diverted for weapons production and by his own realization that a precipitate push for a trade embargo against North Korea is the fastest road to a dangerous confrontation. Even if sanctions could win approval in the U.N. Security Council -- where China has repeatedly stated its opposition -- Pyongyang has said it will regard the imposition of trade restrictions as an act of war, and could retaliate by invading South Korea...
Tutsi rebels continued their advance on the Rwandan capital of Kigali, shelling positions held by the Hutu-dominated Rwandan army. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a plan that would impose an arms embargo on both sides and send an all-African force to intervene...
...Serbs and Muslims to begin peace talks within two weeks. A proposed settlement would give the Serb aggressors 49% of Bosnian territory, with the remaining 51% going to the new federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. Meanwhile the U.S. Senate passed a measure requiring President Clinton to lift an embargo on arms sales to the Bosnians despite the objections of American allies...