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...Ronald Reagan's veto to impose economic sanctions on South Africa in 1986. George Bush was against them then, and would like to end them as soon as he can. The measures halted new U.S. investment in South Africa, cut air links between the two countries, and barred the import of South African products except for vital materials like gold, platinum and diamonds...
...calibrate, a massive mobilization by UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross is under way. However, the situation for the summer remains grim. Iraqi health officials and Western observers say that without an immediate lifting of sanctions, at least as they affect the country's ability to import food and medicine, tens of thousands of children will die, the victims of a war that, for them, is still being waged...
...seemed to be sidetracked, probably for many months. But it was revived with Gorbachev's strong support after telephone conversations between the Soviet leader and George Bush. Free emigration is a precondition for a lowering of very high U.S. tariffs on Soviet goods and for the granting of Export-Import Bank credits to finance the purchase of American products...
...more precocious stars is newcomer Monie Love (Simone Johnson), 19, a British import whose crisp diction, smart rhyming and clear, light voice have given her a hit single, It's a Shame. Love entered college in London with the intention of becoming a kindergarten teacher, but then began singing poetry she had written over tapes her cousins sent from America. Her debut album, Down to Earth, sends a message to women about trust, reconciliation and relationships -- all with an ease and restraint that might not have been possible in rap just a few years...
...church's international "war chest," pleaded guilty in March to using their rare-coin dealership as a money laundry. Other notorious activities by Scientologists include making the shady Vancouver stock exchange even shadier and plotting to plant operatives in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export-Import Bank of the U.S. The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on which countries are going to be denied credit so that Scientology-linked traders can make illicit profits by taking "short" positions in those countries' currencies...