Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what needs to be done," a senior White House official was quoted as saying in Wednesday?s New York Times. "This is a policy that has been held hostage to interest groups for way too long." "What needs to be done" is the easing of the 37-year U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned by all of Washington?s allies. But those "special interest groups" ?- anti-Castro Cuban exiles with significant electoral power in the swing states of Florida and New Jersey ?- will have...
...Times reports that the administration plans a series of small measures in the coming weeks designed to ease the burden of the U.S. embargo on ordinary Cubans and foster greater interaction with Americans, such as relaxing restrictions on travel, money transfers and the sale and donation of medicines. The White House knows that old age, rather than the embargo, is what?s going to get the 72-year-old Castro out of office, and the U.S. has a long-term interest in fostering ties with the generation that will succeed him. But with Gore having to face the Florida governor...
...short memory of man. The downtown buildings, which rise 20 stories above the West Texas scrub, sprang up during the good years--mid-'50s, late '70s, early '90s--and stand half-empty during the bad. In 1973, Midland's most feverish era was touched off by the Arab oil embargo, and suddenly everyone who had ever lived in or passed through the place came looking for oil. When George W. showed up in 1975, not yet 30, he was a curious amalgam of West Texas and East Coast--a Midland childhood mixed with schooling at Phillips Academy and Yale, then...
More Cubans could play here, of course, if the U.S. relaxed its embargo. Demonstrating outside Camden Yards, Ernest Mailhot, of the small Miami Coalition to End the Embargo, hoped that "through the players, Americans can see the Cuban people instead of Fidel...
...contingent--surrounded the place. A salsa band heated up the bricks behind left field, and the usual ballpark air of stale beer and popcorn gave way to the exotic aromas of rum-and-mint mojitos and fine Havana cigars, which Yanqui yuppies puffed in violation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. In the parking lot, protesters shrieked, "Beisbol, si! Cuba...