Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush...
...Still, Yasser Arafat, according to a close aide, was "furious" with his wife for embarrassing Clinton. "He didn't appreciate having to defend her to American and European diplomats," says the aide. The Arafats are accustomed to playing a defensive game. Suha, 36, with her bottle-blond tresses, Louis Feraud suits and French fashion magazines, was not the wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine...
Diamond traders on the Zambia-Angola border also say UNITA still has a rich source of diamonds at Mavinga, in southeastern Angola, long a UNITA stronghold. Mavinga's proximity to the Zambian and Namibian borders makes it ideal for the transfer of diamonds for money, goods or weapons. The border between the countries is just a cut line in the bush, with few fences, and runs for some 625 miles through remote scrubland. It's the kind of majestic rural space where you can see Africa at its best. Or, from the front seat of a diamond trader's truck...
...foreigners (particularly Koreans), Son has fought the battles of an outsider all his life. He bore the boyhood name-calling stoically and tried to toughen himself physically by inserting weights in his shoes to strengthen his legs (the better to play soccer). He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken...
...Still, it wasn't until after he signed a deal to represent hardware maker Cisco Systems in Japan in 1993 that Son's grand Internet vision began to fall into place. "When you have the railroad being laid, you can see the train, you start to imagine the passengers, and you know there will be department stores going up around the station," he says in the midst of one of his characteristic soliloquies. "I had a feeling this was going...