Word: embargos
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...House blasted President Clinton's position on Bosnia by voting to lift the U.S. arms embargo against the Muslim-led government. The directive won by a wide margin and follows a similar measure passed by the Senate. The measure has no legal force in itself, but poses political problems for the President. The present White House stance is to reluctantly support the European-backed embargo and to carve up Bosnia into Serb, Muslim and Croat domains. This position is a reversal of Clinton's longstanding wish to provide arms to the underdog Bosnians. Until recently, the Administration "had thrown...
Kennedy continues of favor using strict economic sanctions and a trade embargo in order to hasten the return of Aristide. He says the U.S. should not rule out the use of military force...
Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...
Many of those small business owners put their lives on the line by denouncing the military-installed puppet government of President Emile Jonassaint. Now they watch as their companies spiral toward ruin. The day before the embargo took effect, Georges Barau Sassine stood above his factory floor as 430 employees sewed the last shipment of Disney children's wear for export to the U.S. "We're all closed," he declared as he popped tablets for an upset stomach. "They're destroying those of us who give jobs. It's so absurd...
...blocks from the Port-au-Prince harbor, a grocery wholesaler complained about an embargo that seemed to benefit only the oligarchs. "If there's no leak in the embargo, then I'll be happy," she says. Last week black marketeers slapped an $11 charge on every case of supplies. Canned milk, a substitute for nonexistent fresh milk, has doubled in price. "The poor people can't afford it," she says. "Everything is for the rich first...