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...wasn't facing the prospect of hundreds of thousands of its citizens' dying of starvation back home.) The two countries exchanged heavy fire Tuesday as Ethiopia pressed its advance into territory seized by Eritrea in 1998, and the U.S. moved to win support for a U.N. Security Council arms embargo - having failed last week despite the direct intervention of a U.N. delegation led by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to forestall the new outbreak. "Both countries face a famine and seemed to realize that they can't afford to divert resources into fighting a war," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
Rambling, incoherent speeches also give me a queasy, skittish feeling, and there were plenty of those on Saturday as well. I should acknowledge, though, that the crowd didn't seem to mind much. They sat patiently while speakers touched on themes including the Iraqi trade embargo, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and of course, the Left's soon-to-be-executed favorite son, Mumia Abu-Jamal...
...However, the American public needs to reexamine the values that place the case of a Cuban boy so far above that of a Haitian girl. The war against Communism is ended. Castro no longer represents a dangerous threat to American national security, (if it ever did) and the Cuban Embargo may soon be lifted...
...until 1976 did he make a real splash. With the U.S. still smarting from the Arab oil embargo, the journal Foreign Affairs published his call for more efficient use of renewable resources rather than more power generation. Common sense today, it was blasphemous then and helped spur the U.S. Congress to hold energy hearings...
...Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties to such communist regimes as China and Vietnam...