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Clinton enjoyed a certain amount of maneuvering room: there is no significant sentiment in Congress to open up immigration or lift the trade embargo on Cuba. "The solution is not for 100,000 Cubans to come to the U.S.," says New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, "but for one man to leave Cuba, and that is Fidel Castro." While some angry Cuban Americans took to the streets of Miami shouting, "Down with Clinton!" exile leaders like Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, lobbied the White House to keep up the pressure. The truth is that even...
...largest Cuban migration since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. With hundreds of refugees arriving in Florida daily, Governor Lawton Chiles called the situation critical and declared a state of emergency. The White House, no longer insisting that the refugee flow was "manageable," abruptly reversed a 28-year-old policy of admitting virtually all Cubans seeking to enter the U.S. and announced that all Cuban refugees will now be detained and processed like other illegal aliens...
...categorically rejected Fidel Castro's televised appeal for talks to lift the 32-year-old embargo on the communist island, even as Castro flung open the gates for Cubans who set sail in droves for U.S. shores. "Our position is that we are not going to enter a dialogue with Castro over the pace and nature of change in Cuba," Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff said. "This is not a situation that has been brought on by American actions." With the rate of intercepted refugees at 3,200 a day, Department of Defense officials decided to send as many...
...making plans to get its peacekeeping force out of Bosnia if U.N. member states vote to lift the arms embargo there, as is expected. War is almost certain to break out as soon as it's clear that the Bosnian Muslims will start getting weapons, says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief, James L. Graff. Any remaining U.N. soldiers are not likely to be spared the wrath of the Serbs, he adds. "It's a knee-jerk reaction to want to lift the arms embargo," says Graff. "It may mean justice for the Muslims, but it also means a nasty...
President Clinton would invoke emergency powers to confiscate any vessels trying to rescue would-be Cuban emigres at sea should Fidel Castro's threatened mass boat lift become a reality. But State Department officials said they're reassured by signs that Florida's Cuban exile community won't rush to pick up fleeing boats, as they did during the 1980 Mariel exodus. This time, the exiles say, helping the dissidents leave would ease the pressure on Castro to reform his system...