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...eventual course of many of the changes may not be determined for months or even years. The efficacy of sanctions and embargo, the future constellation of power in the Arab world, the ability of the United Nations finally to become the peacekeeping organization its creators envisioned -- all hinge heavily on when and how the crisis is finally resolved. But at least the main areas of upheaval are becoming clear...
Sources in Tehran, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Aziz was likely to ask Iranian officials to allow shipments of food and medicine into his country. The U.N. embargo permits only humanitarian shipments of such supplies...
...joint summit statement called for international monitoring of any humanitarian shipments of food or medicine into Iraq as permitted under the U.N. embargo...
About 100,000 U.S. soldiers are dug into the Saudi Arabian desert south of the Kuwaiti border along with several thousand Arab troops. Scores of U.S. and other warships have assembled in the Persian Gulf region, where they are enforcing the U.N.-sanctioned embargo on trade with Iraq...
Even the most pessimistic forecasters were cheered when OPEC decided last week to allow its 13 members to increase production to make up the shortfall of roughly 4.6 million bbl. a day lost in the U.N.-mandated embargo on Iraqi and Kuwaiti crude. In the wake of the cartel's action -- Iraq and Libya did not attend the meeting in Vienna -- petroleum prices dropped about $2 in one day, to $26 per bbl. Toward week's end, however, traders began fretting once again about a possible gulf confrontation and a disruption in energy supplies; with that, the price for October...