Word: embargoing
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...plans are already in the works for still another boat, whose keel is secretly being laid a few hundred yards from where the Dieu Veut was launched. Rumor has it that about 1,000 similar boats are under construction by neighboring communities up and down the coast. If the embargo continues and Aristide fails to return, the call for "leaving day" will be passed by word of mouth, and all the boats will embark at once. The hope is that the Coast Guard will be overwhelmed, allowing perhaps a handful of boats to make it through. If Petit-Trou...
Under pressure from a worldwide oil-and-arms embargo, the Haitian military junta agreed to meet with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected President they ousted...
From the beginning, it was clear that it was America or bust. The "responsible" European nations, led by Britain and France, never gave the besieged Bosnian Muslims much reason to hope. But the Americans did. During the 1992 campaign, Governor Bill Clinton called for lifting the arms embargo against the Bosnians and air strikes against the Serbs. For the Bosnians, a flicker of hope appeared...
...month ago, it seemed as if the U.S. was finally on the move: Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher was in Europe, trying to push the Europeans into support for strong measures in Bosnia. Clinton was talking tough, publicly threatening air strikes and urging the end of the embargo...
...military junta just one week to allow democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to return from exile to the office from which it ousted him in 1991. If the army fails to reinstate Aristide, Haiti will face severe international sanctions, including a freeze on its overseas assets and an embargo of oil and weapons shipments. A proposal for a naval blockade, however, failed...