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...hatching plans to carve up Bosnia between themselves, leaving the Muslims -- 44% and thus the core of Bosnia's population -- with next to nothing. Croatia, which counts heavily on its friends in Bonn and Vienna, might be persuaded to desist. Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt the slaughter...
...houses faced the road, not south. Instead of turning a cold shoulder to winter winds, the north side had windows to admit light and a view. The 20th century brought cheap oil and labor-saving furnaces, and Americans neglected energy conservation until the 1973 oil embargo reawakened interest in some old fashioned ideas...
While tobacco was the cash crop of choice in many parts of the New World, 20th century smokers singled out Cuba as the prestige producer of quality cigars. When the U.S. placed an embargo on Castro's communist economy in 1962, the forbidden Cuban premiums took on mythical qualities. For the truly devout, the mythic Cuban cigar has a heavy and rich aromatic taste that generally milder and sweeter cigars from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Jamaica cannot match...
...Americans and 10,000 Europeans work in Libya, but so far, most have elected to stay. Surprisingly, nearly the whole Arab world went along with the sanctions, though some Arab diplomats complained that the U.S. had not exhausted the diplomatic game before spearheading the campaign for the embargo...
...embargo marks the first coordinated action by the international community against state-sponsored terrorism. If the sanctions do not work -- and the Libyans have endured so many economic hardships over the years that more pain might make little difference -- then the U.N. has the option of instituting an oil embargo. (See cover story on page...