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Neither of the two leading Republican presidential candidates appear to have lost as much as a wink of sleep over the million or more deaths caused by the Iraqi embargo. Bush and McCain both support enforcement of the sanctions, and McCain even openly demands the overthrow of Saddam's regime. One can only wonder how Bush and McCain can display such callous attitudes toward such blatant misinformation and destruction of innocent human life...
...dramatic showdown on the high seas may say more about the state of U.S.-Russian relations. U.S. Navy personnel in the Persian Gulf waited until Albright's plane had left Moscow Thursday before boarding a Russian tanker suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of the U.N. embargo. Russia demanded the immediate return of the vessel and denied smuggling Iraqi oil, although Moscow has taken a lead in efforts to end international sanctions against Baghdad. And that's just one of the areas in which Moscow and Washington are clashing head...
...rests on an unlikely premise: it is 1999, and Castro steps down and calls free elections in return for a lifting of the U.S. embargo. Erstwhile communists and right-wing Cuban exiles in Miami form opposing political parties, hoping to manipulate the populace to their own ends. But out of the mountain villages, a mysterious stranger suddenly appears, bearing an eerie resemblance to the legendary revolutionary who was assassinated in 1967. His message: Cubans can reclaim power over their own lives in a "radical democracy" without pollsters, socialists or corporate capitalists. As the movement grows, the evil forces dispatch assassins...
...paper the changes are minor, such as allowing more people-to-people contacts. But at the State Department, in the business community and even in Congress, sentiment is growing to abandon the 40-year-old embargo that has failed to dislodge Castro. Farmers, businessmen and tourists are clamoring for greater access to the island, as other countries usurp a natural U.S. market. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 53% of Americans surveyed said the U.S. should open diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...debates and faced with a viable challenger in the form of John McCain, George W. Bush was forced to lean on the 11th Commandment of Republican campaigning - don't hurt the party. And thus Bush and McCain staged a minor p.r. coup, shaking hands on a negative campaigning embargo. "This is a way for George Bush to distinguish himself from the other candidates, by painting himself as a different kind of candidate from Steve Forbes," said TIME Washington correspondent James Carney...