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...Laden stretches his definition of American aggression further. He blames the U.S. for the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Christian Serbs because of a U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia until 1994. He even counts in this category the 1992-94 mission by U.S. troops to mostly Muslim Somalia as part of a U.N. effort to assist a famine-starved population caught between battling warlords. In bin Laden's book, the troop landing was simply a show of force by the U.S. "to scare the Muslim world, saying that it is able to do whatever it desires." He asked...
...saga. The protests against the return of the six-year-old to his father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power, Mas Santos and other younger CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity to show the exiles on their best behavior - which was why they lobbied hard for the show to be held in their...
...some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown, the reality is beginning to dawn that the aging strongman is more likely to choose his own retirement date, and that his regime won't necessarily retire along with him. And that's prompted growing concern in Washington that the longstanding embargo may actually be functioning to deny the U.S. influence over the shape of a post-Castro Cuba. Increasingly urgent calls for more U.S. engagement with people on the island has challenged the CANF and other exiled groups to find new ways to make their own voices heard in shaping...
...global situation today in some ways compares to the decade after the 1973 oil embargo, when fuel prices soared. Americans suddenly wanted smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles. The Japanese, who had been building such cars for years, won lucrative market share and customer loyalty that U.S. producers have never entirely regained. Now as then, the affected U.S. companies are debating not only corporate strategy but also the appropriate role for government...
...order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO chief George Robertson said the E.U. might follow. RUSSIA Defending Iraq Moscow said it would block a U.S.-British initiative for "smart sanctions" against Iraq and instead introduce a resolution calling for the gradual lifting of all U.N. embargoes. The move effectively thwarted Security Council plans to introduce more targeted sanctions against Iraq this week. The measures would ease restrictions on civilian goods while retaining the military embargo against Saddam Hussein. Moscow's rejection of the new proposals followed a meeting of Russian oil and gas company executives, urging...