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...regime of Saddam Hussein fully accepted its defeat to this day. Although the West expected his warmaking capacity to be blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
Anticipating the end of sanctions, Iraq has negotiated a batch of trade agreements with France, Turkey and Russia, and has even been discussing new contracts with U.S. companies. A loophole in the sanctions allows foreign companies to set up deals with Iraq that will take effect once the U.N. embargo is lifted. The French, Italians, Russians and Turks have interpreted this to mean they can enter contractual relationships; the U.S. has not. "It would be stupid for us to be the last ones in, when everyone else is lining up to sign contracts for Iraq's reconstruction," says General Jeannou...
This week, as he does every 60 days, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz will meet with the U.N. sanctions committee in New York City to argue for an end to the embargo. His previous entreaties were flatly rejected, but this time he will find growing support. Three of the five permanent members -- France, Russia and China -- want the trade bans eased. All three stand to win lucrative contracts to repair Iraq's infrastructure. France and Russia, among Saddam's major prewar trading partners, hope Baghdad could begin paying off its massive debts...
...screws to the Dominican Republic. Any trade embargo, no matter how tough on paper, can't work if Santo Domingo's rulers continue winking at the cross-border smuggling that sustains the Haitian usurpers. Sugar exports to the U.S. account for most of the Dominican Republic's wealth, which isn't much. Serious sanctions would threaten an end to that trade if the Dominicans didn't close the border...
...Friday, at U.S. urging, the U.N. passed a resolution toughening the so far ineffective embargo on Haiti. Earlier in the week, President Clinton said he had not ruled out U.S. military intervention. Meanwhile, about 500 Haitian refugees who recently arrived in Florida will be allowed to remain in the U.S. while their cases are processed by immigration officials. Said a senior U.S. official: "Clearly, policy toward Haiti is in flux...