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Most still oppose lifting the embargo, though, which means the White House must play a delicate game if it still hopes to attract Cuban-American voters in the crucial state of Florida. While Clinton has promised not to lift the embargo unless Cuba institutes free elections and other democratic changes, his Administration is open to easing some restrictions in return for partial measures from Castro. For now, the White House is thinking of making travel to Cuba easier for academics and religious figures, as well as lifting obstacles to the posting of Cuban journalists in the U.S. and American journalists...
...when he fled Cuba with his family, he now advises American clients like Royal Caribbean Cruises and Baskin-Robbins on ways to prepare themselves for the post-Fidel market. But he formed his company five years ago in hopes of doing joint ventures in Cuba of the kind the embargo still forbids. Today he must study each shift from Havana and Washington for nuances affecting his clients, an obsession he admits is not shared by the younger generation of entrepreneurs. "It's not true that all Cuban Americans live and die by what's happening in Cuba,'' he says...
Other exiles, alarmed by what they see as a creeping erosion in the embargo, have got behind a bill sponsored by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. It would allow Cuban Americans whose homes or business holdings were confiscated by Castro to file suit in U.S. courts against foreign firms or individuals who do business in Cuba that involves their former properties. "Even if Cuban exiles cannot win back their property in the near future, we want to make sure no foreign investors get it either," says Nick Gutiarrez, a Miami attorney who represents a group of former Cuban sugar-mill...
...million people are jobless and about 700,000 have been temporarily laid off. Gross national product dropped from $2,330 per capita in 1991 to $1,225 in 1993, the latest figure available. An estimated 2 million of Serbia's 10 million people live below the poverty line. The embargo also limits the country's ability to make an industrial recovery. Sanctions-busting on a grand scale -- mainly through Romania and Bulgaria and, to a lesser extent, Macedonia -- keeps stores filled with all manner of goods, but few people can afford them at whatever price...
Still, Milosevic says he sees the sanctions discussion in far more than just economic terms. His argument is that the embargo constitutes the single most important obstacle to a comprehensive regional peace. "Serbia is a major factor for peace in the Balkans," he says, "but we are under sanctions; we are in prison. The international community is making a mistake in expecting us to run in our struggle for peace but do so with the chains of sanctions on our legs." Once the embargo is lifted and a comprehensive peace is in place, he says, economic and other links will...