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...Gulf War isn't over. Since the mother of all battles ended in apparent success 10 years ago this month, the U.S. has been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of modern weapons - economic sanctions, an arms embargo, weapons inspections, money for opposition groups, no-fly zones and the occasional bombing - to unseat Saddam Hussein. To no avail. The vexing enemy left in position in 1991 by the first President Bush has managed ever since to keep the Iraqi threat alive...
Both organizations made announcements yesterday--several days before the reports will be published--because a British newspaper broke an established embargo and announced the news Sunday...
When Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990, the UN Security Council quickly passed Resolution 661, imposing a full trade embargo on Iraq that would only be lifted once Iraq had withdrawn. However, after the US-led alliance pulverized the Iraqi army and drove H out of Kuwait, the sanctions remained in place. What began as a seemingly mild punishment for a violation of international law has culminated in one of the worst man-made humanitarian disasters of all time...
...such a long and interesting history with Cuba over the past 40 years, the older adults are more aware of U.S.-Cuban relations and are very excited that there's finally a way to travel legally," says Rosenthal. "We don't take a stance on the embargo or U.S.-Cuba relations. We want people to come and make decisions for themselves...
...flown by Miami-based exiles that had been flying propaganda missions into Cuban airspace - and Mr. Clinton saw Florida as one of the critical battleground states in that year's reelection campaign. The legislation will make life difficult for President Bush, too, of course, because it transformed the Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force the new president, like his predecessor, to choose between violating WTO regulations and facing down a very angry Senator Jesse Helms - and some even angrier and very organized folks down in Miami whose yeoman work last November...