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...guided by Lacayo -- has kept her two central campaign pledges: to end the nine-year conflict between the Sandinista army and the U.S.-backed contras, and to eliminate the military draft. Her administration is also slowly repairing the economic meltdown produced by Sandinista mismanagement, the war and a U.S. embargo on trade that was lifted only last year...
...eventually dry up altogether, the Cubans have begun to look elsewhere for help. Thanks to a law on joint ! ventures, West Europeans are pouring millions of dollars into the Cuban tourist industry, building luxury oceanside hotels. The Soviets now tell the U.S. that the sooner it lifts its trade embargo against Cuba, the sooner perestroika and demokratizatsiya will arrive on the island...
...most widespread problems are traceable to the allied devastation of power plants and to the continuing trade embargo. Without electricity, hospitals cannot operate even such basic equipment as incubators or refrigerators needed to store blood and medicine, much less the more sophisticated machinery of operating rooms and intensive-care units. In the northern city of Arbil, all premature infants are dying: there are no working incubators. In the southern city of Karbala, a hospital without refrigeration relies on a makeshift method to acquire blood for transfusions: the staff sends a young man running out of the hospital to fetch...
Last week, The Crimson called on President Bush to give the U.N.'s economic embargo of Iraq a chance to cripple Saddam's war machine. We agreed that the worldwide coalition could not tolerate the ruthless dictator's occupation of Kuwait indefinitely, but we believed (and still do believe) that military force should be used only as a last resort...
Moral issues aside, there is considerable doubt whether a continued embargo will speed Saddam's downfall. The Administration hopes that popular resentment of the hardships Iraqis face will help provoke a coup d'etat. That calculation may well prove flawed. Would-be plotters, whether in the military or in the government, are insulated from these travails because of their privileged access to anything in short supply. Besides, the resentment could be directed at the authors of the embargo instead of toward Saddam...