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...sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...
...guidelines for environmentally sound tuna fishing. Their declaration permits encirclement so long as onboard observers certify that no dolphin drowned during the netting operation, and its provisions became the basis for a bill introduced by Alaska Senator Ted Stevens that would, among other things, lift the U.S. embargo. California Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, has introduced a competing bill that would also lift the sanctions on the Latin nations but maintain them on individual vessels that catch tuna by encirclement of dolphins...
...Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets and to pass the Helms-Burton legislation enhancing the effectiveness of the economic embargo against Cuba. Clinton also restricted the travel of Cuban officials in America and limited visits by Cubans. In the works are possible U.N. sanctions against Cuba, and an intensification of broadcasts by the U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro Radio Marti. Despite all the fanfare, the measures "won't hurt Cuba much," says...
...YORK CITY: Iraqi representatives arrived in New York to begin negotiations with the U.N. for permission to sell as much as $2 billion worth of oil over the next six months. The U.N. has enforced an oil embargo against Iraq since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq now appears ready to accept the longstanding U.N. offer to partially lift the embargo, allowing limited oil sales. There are strings attached, however: the money can only be used to support Gulf War victims, buy food and medicine for Iraqi citizens, or fund U.N. monitoring operations. Iraq most strenuously objects...
...Ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, announced on Tuesday that Iraq would finally accede to a United Nations demand to spend oil revenue for needed food and medical supplies for its beleaguered population. But it was not clear that Iraq has made a firm decision. The international embargo on Iraq, first imposed in August of 1990, has devastated the Iraqi economy. Until now, Hussein has refused the UN offer to allow Iraq to sell a billion dollars of oil every 90 days because of the monitoring strings attached. As a result of Hamdoon's announcement, the price of crude...