Word: embargos
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...investigating allegations that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown agreed to accept $700,000 to press for the end of the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam. As first reported in U.S. News & World Report and confirmed to Time by law-enforcement sources, a Florida businessman named Ly Thanh Binh claims a former associate of his boasted of enlisting Brown's aid shortly after he was nominated as Secretary. The FBI took the claims seriously enough to conduct a field investigation, but many of the case's facts remain unresolved, and no evidence has been presented to a grand jury. Brown categorically...
...proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that the U.S. was finally moving the right way. That went straight to hell in a matter of days," he says, when Christopher returned empty-handed. Last week's bomb-or-not-to-bomb contortions made up his mind...
...argue that some of the ethnic cleansing that has put hundreds of thousands of Bosnians to flight can be undone -- and can be prevented from happening again. Wohlstetter and others contend that Washington has been too quick to abandon its option of "lift and strike" -- lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims and strike at mainly Serbian heavy weapons with aircraft and limited ground forces. But it may be too late for that, with Sarajevo on the verge of defeat. In any case, the lift option is vehemently opposed by all of Europe except Germany...
...various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently, at least -- has been very cooperative in helping with POW/MIAs. This may make a difference as Washington decides in September whether to lift its two-decade-old trade embargo against Vietnam...
After three days of talks in Hanoi, the U.S. suggested the deployment of three State Department officers to help investigate the fates of MIAs after the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government, hoping to reverse an American economic embargo, agreed in principle. The U.S. delegation would be the country's first extended diplomatic presence in Hanoi since...