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...forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
...government could only muster contradictory signals and empty gestures in response to the invasion panic. Jonassaint's state of emergency was roundly dismissed as a national joke when the military failed even to declare a curfew. Derision turned to surprise when, in a city where nothing works, pothole-repair crews and street cleaners suddenly made an appearance along several main streets in Port-au-Prince -- presumably to demonstrate, however peripherally, that the government is capable of doing something...
...attention to the affectionate reassurances that keep friendship alive. Though capable of a holy rage when it was called for -- for instance, when a famous figure of the day weaseled out of a book he had promised her for Doubleday -- it gave her enormous pleasure to keep friendships in repair...
...York City to argue for an end to the embargo. His previous entreaties were flatly rejected, but this time he will find growing support. Three of the five permanent members -- France, Russia and China -- want the trade bans eased. All three stand to win lucrative contracts to repair Iraq's infrastructure. France and Russia, among Saddam's major prewar trading partners, hope Baghdad could begin paying off its massive debts...
...trusted [Lennar] because it was the largestbuilder in Florida," said Susan Woolf, a Hampshirehomeowner who decided to move rather thanattempting to repair her home after the hurricane."It just goes to show you can't trust anyoneanymore...