Word: embargos
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President Clinton won a victory, though with no room to spare, when the Senate voted 50-50 not to lift the White House -- supported arms embargo against Bosnia. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, backed by most Republicans and some Democrats, went after the Clinton policy in an effort to give the besieged Bosnians more firepower to fend off the better armed Serbs. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers welcomed the vote as a confirmation of the President's Bosnia stance -- a policy, BTW, that candidate Clinton had railed against. Dole said he'd try it again.parpar
...Clinton Administration, there are several reasons. A successful invasion could rapidly earn credibility for a foreign policy widely decried as weak and inept. It would also stand as an important victory for the international community: an unjust regime would be toppled; a brutal embargo would be lifted. What's more, say some experts, this is the first -- and most essential -- step toward getting Haiti on its feet. "There is no way to govern without restoring President Aristide," says Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. "So, regrettable as it is, military intervention is less regrettable than...
...driving a wedge between the military men who control the government and the business elite who support them. "Up to now," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, "because of the slipshod nature of sanctions enforcement, an awful lot of the Haitian establishment not only could live with the embargo but, perversely, quite a few were profiting from...
...will take more than the almond-syrup libations with which voodoo priests placate the god's wrath to save Haiti from U.S. anger if the thugs who run the country do not voluntarily give up power. The once lackadaisical trade embargo is beginning to bite now that U.S. ships are forcibly halting all sea traffic and the land border from the Dominican Republic has been virtually shut down. Two new measures aimed at toppling the strongmen who deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 -- suspension of all commercial air traffic from the U.S. beginning this Saturday...
...beaujolais crowd, a vast, silent constituency eagerly awaits the political resurrection of the priest who is referred to in hushed whispers as "the man whose name we cannot speak." In villages throughout the country, prayers are offered in the churches each Sunday for the lifting of the embargo. "I would like to see the invasion," said Smith Elmont, a boatwright from the small coastal village of Luly. "We all want the Americans to come. Then there will be justice and we will live in peace...