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...seemed so right. Here was a convergence of skills, needs and timing. Two years earlier the nation had celebrated the first Earth Day and Congress had passed the Clean Air Act. Another year would bring the Arab oil embargo, long lines at gas stations and an unnerving sense that the industrial Western world could no longer count on endless supplies of cheap oil. Meanwhile, under American soil lay a quarter of the world's coal supply -- easily enough to power the nation into the 22nd century. If Smith and Keller -- two smart, practical fellows who cared about the environment -- could...
...sanctions go about as far as foreign pressure can, short of war. They will stop all Serbian exports and all imports except for food and medicine, freeze Serbian assets held abroad and break all air links to the outside world. The key measure, though, is an embargo on oil, the lifeblood of both modern industry and mechanized armies, but it is far from certain that the tap will be turned off. Almost half of Serbia's fuel comes from Russia and China, which went along only reluctantly with the sanctions resolution. Some British diplomats are worried that oil may slip...
...President has insisted all along that many of the Haitian refugees are fleeing economic conditions, not political oppression, yet he has labeled the military dictatorship in power there an "illegal regime," and has imposed an embargo on any ship that has docked in Haiti. Political violence is increasing in Port-au-Prince. The Administration, acknowledging that Haitians seen making proper requests for asylum at the embassy may be in danger, announced that it will send officials out into the countryside to take applications. A partial list of those condemning U.S. refugee policy: the Anti-Defamation League, the N.A.A.C.P...
Russia and China, who are permanent members of the Council, had been reluctant to go along with the sanctions plan. Its measures range from a complete trade embargo, including oil shipments, to cutting air links and freezing Serbian assets abroad. After quiet negotiations, the Security Council passed the resolution Saturday. Even so, no one was predicting that Serbia and its hard-nosed President Slobodan Milosevic would quickly move to end the bloodshed. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...real culprit is a pervasive sense of hopelessness on the island fostered by the ambivalent policies of Haiti's neighbors. Military leaders seized power last September from the popularly elected President, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but the Organization of American States decided only this month to tighten its embargo by barring ships from their ports that traded with Haiti. The U.S. supports the embargo and is pressuring the European Community to stop sending supplies, but the Pentagon has refused to strong-arm its onetime military allies into accepting an OAS-brokered peace plan...