Word: embargos
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...committing sexual battery against her each time she and Roque had intercourse. The suit was widely regarded as a symbolic gesture--until a Miami circuit-court judge this year awarded Martinez $27.2 million, to be garnished from Cuban assets frozen in the U.S. under the rules of the economic embargo. Locating and collecting that dough will be hard and may require an O.K. from the White House. But Martinez's lawyers were confident enough last week to begin pushing banks like J.P. Morgan Chase to cough it up. The banks have yet to reply...
Martinez's award would mark another counterattack by foes of Castro, who fear that U.S. public opinion has turned against the embargo and are finding new ways to attack him. The families of the Brothers to the Rescue victims, for example, have won and collected almost $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. "Where else but the U.S. should we be able to vindicate the rights of individuals wronged by the governments of other nations?" asks Fernando Zulueta, a Martinez attorney...
...First, Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959. In response to the takeover, the US imposed a trade embargo...
Judge Jackson did not talk to Auletta until after the last day of the trial. But those conversations occurred before the judge had issued his findings of fact, and before he issued his order breaking up Microsoft. Judge Jackson embargoed his comments until he issued a judgment. He may have felt that meant he was not talking publicly during the trial. But Microsoft argued the embargo only made things worse: if his conversations had been known, he might have been removed from the case back then...
...While he can ritually intone the mantra of taking steps to change the regime in Baghdad, he also has to be concerned that this is a policy option that causes concern among the Arab states on whom Washington must rely to enforce the arms embargo. Powell may envisage a policy of long-term containment of Saddam, but that's not going to sound particularly appealing to the Capitol Hill hawks who want to finish what the Gulf War began. Still, Powell may have an overwhelming advantage over his critics: Like the Gulf War itself, the policy of long-term containment...