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...wide-bodied. He is casually dressed tonight, clad in an untucked purple shirt, jeans and Fila sneakers. He has played in the U.S. before, but this month he is embarking on his first sizable Stateside tour, one of the most extensive by any Cuban performer since the embargo began in 1962. Valdes has a new solo CD to promote, Bele Bele en la Habana (Blue Note), an album of virtuosity and intellect and sorcery that could just turn out to be the attention-grabbing Kind of Blue of Cuban jazz...
Cuba is an island no more, musically speaking. Its music was once a force in this country, but in the '60s, the embargo hit, and Cuban musicians were barred, for the most part, from playing in the U.S. The music, in America, slipped from a place of prominence. But in 1988 Congress passed an amendment to the embargo that allowed Cuban musicians to perform Stateside if they came as part of a cultural exchange, a requirement typically fulfilled by the artist's giving an educational workshop in addition to his or her regular...
STATUS U.S. still thinks Gaddafi is interested in acquiring nuclear weapons, but a U.N. embargo has hampered his progress RANGE...
While the U.S. last week loudly protested a wave of atrocities sweeping the war-torn African nation of Sierra Leone, questions arose about whether enough had been done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word...
...agreement to anything being done on sanctions," said British ambassador Sir John Weston. The reason: Richard Butler's claim that UNSCOM has made "virtually no progress" in recent weapons inspections. Even the Russians, who are floating a resolution that would muzzle UNSCOM, balked at the idea of lifting the embargo itself...