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Today, as the U.S. spearheads the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Libya for not handing over two suspects in the bombing, Mrs. McKee wonders if Chuck's background contains the secret of why this plane was targeted. If her suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major Charles Dennis McKee, called "Tiny" by his Army intelligence friends, was a burly giant and a superstar in just about every kind of commando training offered to American military personnel. He completed the rugged Airborne and Ranger schools, graduated first in his class from the Special Forces qualification course...
...eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq. But after 10 days of less than crackerjack surveillance, the Dae Hung Ho eluded U.S. warships and docked peacefully in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The Pentagon suddenly had a lot to explain...
...Board, the New York City-based business- research group that measures consumer confidence each month, shocked economists and politicians alike with a report that its index plummeted 4 points in February, to 46.3. That is its lowest level since 1974, when the nation was gripped by the great oil-embargo recession. The news jolted the financial markets. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called the collapse in consumer confidence "quite disturbing...
Since soldiers overthrew Haiti's first freely elected President five months ago, restoring a functioning democracy has not proved easy. Last week, in an attempt to lift the crippling economic embargo imposed on the military-backed government by the Organization of American States, top politicians of the hemisphere's poorest country struck a complex deal at OAS headquarters in Washington...
...northwest and northeast serve as the Kurds' lifelines. In spite of the international embargo, cross-border trade with Turkey is booming. Hundreds of trucks arrive daily, carrying everything from food and medical supplies to machine tools. On their return trips, the rigs ferry thousands of gallons of illicit Iraqi gasoline and oil to Turkey that are sold at 10 times the purchase price...