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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much for the U.N.-imposed economic sanctions that were intended to force the Serbs to end their belligerent ways. Bulgarian officials estimate that 100,000 tons of crude oil and gasoline have passed into Serbia by rail alone since the embargo was imposed on May 31. Add to that heavy truck traffic and considerable small-time smuggling, and it becomes clear that the ban is not working very well. "We are following the sanctions to the letter," says customs official Christo Christov at Kalotina, "but considering the amount of traffic through here, the Serbs are going to get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaky Sanctions | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...began with only a few brave if intoxicated persons, cascading randomly down the side of the stands and over a rail onto some flimsy, transportable aluminum bleachers...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: The Game: A Tradition Of Collective Action | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

World communism was a chimera even before Kennedy sent U.S. advisers to Vietnam. The Sino-Soviet split began in 1960; later, Mao Zedong refused to let the Soviets send arms to Hanoi by rail across China. In 1978 Vietnam attacked the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the following year beat back an invasion by China. This was not the sequence of events that Dwight Eisenhower had in mind in 1954 when he propounded the domino theory, the rationale for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. Instead, the violent feuding among the region's Marxist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The War That Will Not End | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

LaRouche said he will rebuild the transportation grid, with an emphasis on the rail system, push for fusion energy and institute a "science-driver, to fuel industrial productivity, such as a long-range buildup toward the colonization of Mars...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RUNNING ON THE FRINGE | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...America, education, racial division. The Republicans have spent 12 years trashing government's role in these and other matters while quietly watching the size of the government increase. Ideologically opposed to its reform (except for active government proponents like Jack Kemp) and politically frightened of cutting the spending they rail against, the Republicans have supervised a nation in decline, with deficits and corruption swelling simultaneously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Promise, Vision and Hope | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

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