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...faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still holds 28,000 rafters in legal limbo, most at Guantanamo, and has resolutely kept the subsequent talks fixed on matters of migration...
...confidence. Emerging nations that have been relying on foreign investment to underpin financial reform and build prosperity will have to do with less as a result of the cooling of investor ardor. Argentina, which like Mexico has an overvalued currency and carries substantial foreign debt, has watched $1.8 billion flee the country since the Mexican devaluation, despite firm promises by the government that the Argentine peso will not be devalued. Last year $11 billion flowed into Argentina in direct and indirect investment; this year the amount is expected to drop by as much as half. ``There is a crisis...
...Chechen guerrillas, they stayed buttoned up inside their vehicles. The Chechens used their antitank grenades to blast the Russian armor from the rear and from above. Sometimes they simply blew treads off the lead and last tanks, immobilizing the column. When frightened young Russians climbed out to flee, they were mowed down with rifle fire or captured...
...sacred taboo. When I mentioned Jim Carrey's name in one conversation, for example, the shaman of the tribe spit three times and walked away. It took many gifts of Alfred Hitchcock video-tapes and props from old Hepburn-Tracy movies to appease him. I was forced to flee the community for good when I inadvertently mentioned the films of Jerry Lewis...
Wellesley Professor Anthony Martin. Flee! Flee! We're all Jewish and we're coming...