Word: embargos
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There are even reports of rising dissatisfaction among the elite as the regime stumbles from crisis to crisis and corruption increases. A U.S. intelligence source says a Washington-led embargo against Pyongyang would take time to loosen the regime's grip on power, since Kim has already shown that he's "willing to let a lot of people die off." But eventually sanctions might take their toll, as even top government officials and members of the security services began to feel the pinch. "If the regime can no longer maintain the lifestyles of [those] people," says the source, "it could...
...which could have been used for Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. Although the paper also named companies from the U.S., France, the U.K., China and Russia, German firms made up more than half of those in the report. And despite the 1990 U.N. weapons embargo on Iraq, German companies were supposedly still doing business with the rogue state as recently as last year...
...famished troops one evening last week at the time of the iftar. There have been no runs on the banks, no reports of hoarding of food. Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious...
Charlene Music ’04, who once represented Cuba’s anti-embargo stance as a participant in Harvard Model United Nations, said she is also interested to see what conditions are like in the country...
...member of the domestic-policy staff. While Rove does not attend sessions of the President's war council, he regularly weighs in on foreign-policy matters during morning senior staff meetings with the President, offering opinions on everything from Middle East peace to international trade to the Cuban economic embargo. "Karl has the absolute, utter trust of the President of the United States," says Bill Paxon, a prominent G.O.P. operative and former Congressman with close ties to the White House. "That's really what makes him so good...