Word: embargos
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...LIFTED. ARMS EMBARGO placed on Indonesia by the U.S. in 1999 after accusations that the nation's military led a brutal crackdown on East Timorese seeking independence; in Washington. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the removal of the embargo would bolster American security objectives in Asia, such as supporting Jakarta's fight against terrorism. Some human-rights groups criticized the U.S. decision, which they said decreased the likelihood that the Indonesian military leaders accused of planning the East Timor assault will ever face trial...
Trading with the Former Enemy / Almost two decades after the war ended, President Clinton will finally and fully lift the U.S. trade embargo with Vietnam in the next few weeks, say those familiar with his plans. Meanwhile, Ross Perot hopes to fight to keep the embargo in place, and recently held a strategy summit to plan his campaign. In attendance were the leaders of two major groups of MIA/POW relatives, as well as Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire...
Pyongyang has decided to seem cooperative. That way it can count on resuming the vital programs that were frozen after the submarine incident: food and humanitarian-aid shipments, new nuclear power reactors paid for largely by South Korea, relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo. Kim & Co. may still believe they are only becoming more realistic in order to save the regime and stay in power. But, one is scarcely sorry to observe, their turn away from ideology and toward reality could mean the death of Stalinism...
...embargo, m?s que cualquier otro grupo, los hispanos no son f?ciles de catalogar. Mejicanos, cubanos y argentinos hablan todos el mismo idioma, pero muchos rechazar?an ser identificados como un mismo grupo. Un buen n?mero de hispanos nacidos en EE.UU. no habla espa?ol, y muchos tienen poca o ninguna gota de sangre europea. En efecto, la categor?a ?hispano" es un invento anglo que fue usada por primera vez por la Oficina del Censo en 1980, y la ?nica que tiene base en la cultura e idioma, y no en la raza. Esa distinci?n frustra a algunos hispanos que creen que pertenecen...
Singapore insists that the ban penalizes the nation even though it has already decided to abide by the animal-protection covenants in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Moreover, the government protests, the embargo has cut off the legitimate export of some $12 million worth of bred-in-Singapore tropical fish. ABORTION False Advertising...