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...soared to 250% of prewar levels, while living standards have plunged by half. Both as a money-saving move and a hedge against defections of senior diplomats, Baghdad has recently had to close 15 embassies. The question facing Western policymakers is whether Saddam's intensified lobbying to end the embargo shows last-ditch desperation, which would argue for keeping up the pressure in hopes of toppling the regime, or whether Saddam has successfully ridden out the storm. In any event, his strategy is clever and multipronged...
...weapons programs continue to operate in France, Switzerland, Germany, Britain and the U.S. Last month American customs agents arrested a pair of Jordanian nationals, Al. M. Harb and his wife Rula Saba Harb, on charges of using a home-based front company in Midlothian, Virginia, to circumvent the Iraqi embargo. Court documents show that the couple made more than 100 shipments to Iraq over the past three years, including equipment that could be used for ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. "These aren't the Rosenbergs," says a customs agent. "But we have established that they shipped equipment and spare parts...
...FRIENDS. France, which enjoyed cozy commercial ties with Iraq before the war, is particularly eager to loosen trade strictures. So far, the war and the ! embargo have cost taxpayers an estimated $8.7 billion in unpaid government- guaranteed loans, and Paris wants to get the money back...
...newly seated puppet President. Yet Clinton was back where he started: in a fog of indecision, with the U.N., the Organization of American States and just about everyone else waiting for him to provide presidential vision. The breathing space he had hoped to give himself by tightening the economic embargo on Haiti -- which will go into effect May 21 -- has already been undermined by his Administration's accelerated hints of possible military action. "The Administration is drifting toward intervention in some form," says Georges Fauriol, director of the Americas program at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Administration officials admit privately that the President does not know what move to make next. The prospect of tougher sanctions and the appointment of a new envoy revive the possibility of negotiations -- but probably not until the bite of the embargo is felt months from now. While no one seems eager to invade, as National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said, "it is an option. We, of course, are looking...