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...Texan said the United States should seek a worldwide embargo against Iraqi oil. "Iraq is deeply in debt and very dependent on oil revenues and such an embargo would be an effective way to get their attention," he said...
...Cambodia's future is still problematic, Vietnam's looks more promising. Ever since the Vietnamese withdrew their troops from Cambodia, they have been eagerly waiting for the U.S. to restore diplomatic relations and end the trade embargo that deepens their desperate economic problems. By agreeing to open talks with Hanoi on the Cambodian issue, Baker has at least opened the door to the possibility of normalizing relations after 15 years of isolation...
...declaration of the republic's desire for "sovereignty." Gorbachev countered by ordering up a commission to draft a new treaty that would establish a loose federation among the 15 Soviet republics, providing each of them with economic "sovereignty." In a show of goodwill, he partly eased the natural-gas embargo against breakaway Lithuania. After meeting with the leaders of all the republics for five hours last week, Gorbachev seemed to have dampened his antagonist's fervor. Said Yeltsin: "We shook hands, and we met each other halfway . . . We agreed that Russia cannot survive without the entire country and the country...
Would Castro moderate his hard line in exchange for an end to TV Marti, or a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba? "Unless Fidel believes we will actually walk away if he doesn't deal, he won't deal," says a Soviet diplomat. "And he is nowhere close to thinking that." Castro knows that Cuba is for Gorbachev what abortion is for Bush -- a touchstone issue for core conservatives. But "responsible people are increasingly upset about subsidizing a man who thumbs his nose at us," says a Soviet official. "If Gorbachev decides to take on the conservatives over...
Trade unexpectedly turned out to be the touchiest subject of all. In Moscow last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Secretary of State James Baker that the Kremlin understood American reluctance to sign a comprehensive trade deal while Moscow continues its economic embargo of Lithuania. But Gorbachev last week would not let the subject drop. In a sharp exchange with congressional leaders Friday morning, he expressed particular irritation that the U.S. still denies most-favored-nation trade status to the U.S.S.R., though it has just renewed that status for China despite last year's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators...