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President Clinton relaxed the ban on trade with Vietnam in order to allow U.S. firms to bid on development projects there. He stopped short of eliminating the embargo on most dealings, however, saying that Hanoi is not yet fully cooperating in the search for MIAS...
Washington -- This Tuesday, Clinton must decide whether to end or extend the trade embargo against Vietnam, which is decades old. Last week Hanoi deemed it the right time to share with the U.S. several sacks of documents that may shed new light on the fate of MIA-POWs. Among these are the much sought after "Blue Books" -- internal documents of the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense that detail exactly where Americans were captured and held. Pentagon insiders say it's the largest amount of intelligence Hanoi has ever given...
...open letter released last week, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...
With democracy on track, U.N. lifts crippling trade embargo...