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Despite an infusion of international aid, the agreement failed to bring broader peace or local prosperity. Hussein's refusal to join the gulf coalition against Saddam Hussein, for fear of provoking his pro-Iraq citizenry, angered lifelong Western and Arab friends, and the embargo imposed on a defeated Saddam has savaged Jordan's economy as well. The King deeply mourned the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had hoped to mold a Palestinian state, and many Jordanians grew embittered at the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. In Hussein's lifetime, when Jordan may have...
Pope John Paul II wants more than Bill Clinton's confession: He's more likely to use his brief private meeting with President Clinton Tuesday to press the U.S. on issues ranging from the bombing of Iraq to the embargo against Cuba -- both of which the pontiff opposes -- and to press for measures such as debt relief for developing nations. Speaking on arrival for a one-day visit to St. Louis, the pope spoke out against abortion and the death penalty and urged Americans to "open (their) hearts to those less fortunate...
Angelos, taking advantage of President Clinton's partial lifting of the embargo against Cuba, will propose a two-game exhibition series between the Orioles and the Cuban National team. One game would take place in Cuba, a second at Camden Yards. While Cuban officials are reportedly "skeptical" that the meeting will lead to any real diplomacy, there have been signs in the past that Castro, still a huge fan, is willing to relax his policies when it comes to baseball: Last year when the New York Yankees won the World Series, he allowed the family of Cuban defector Orlando...
Bill Clinton is in no hurry to clothe the emperor. The U.S. embargo on Cuba may be privately acknowledged as a cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
...highway behind al-Rasheed Hotel downtown. It is not that Iraqis are afraid or battened down in their bomb shelters. There is little to keep them out after dark, even on a peaceful night before the holy month of Ramadan. Baghdad is worn down by an eight-year-old embargo. Iraqis hurry home at nightfall to count the nearly worthless dinars they have managed to earn this day, to plot and scheme how they will bring in a few more in a life of meager survival. What happens will happen. They have known neither peace nor prosperity for more than...