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...retaliation might threaten a market for U.S. exports in aircraft, telecommunications equipment, wheat and other food products that is expected to grow enormously in coming years. Chief executives of seven of the biggest U.S. companies doing business with China signed a letter to the President estimating that "in 10 years our cumulative sales to China will reach $158 billion, assuming normal relations." Clinton evidently got the message: in discussions with his advisers, he repeatedly ticked off the exact dollar losses for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas airplane makers -- and the electoral votes he could put at risk in states crucial...
...grass-roots organizations that helped him secure the presidency have been dismantled, their leaders forced into hiding by promilitary gunmen who operate under the name of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH). The front's forces are unlikely to surrender, and can be expected to threaten Aristide supporters and U.S. troops alike. "They'll make it into a guerrilla war," warns a defense official...
...people to join his Cabinet. According to Daniel Phillipe, who is slated to be chief of staff to the incoming President: "We are having trouble getting people to become ministers." He says prospective candidates have been frightened away by "people claiming to be calling for the U.S. embassy" who threaten CIA retribution or the revocation of U.S. visas. "We frankly don't know if these calls are really from U.S. officials, Aristide people or FRAPH," Phillipe says. But "already five people we thought would be ministers have said now they won't serve...
...trade embargo, no matter how tough on paper, can't work if Santo Domingo's rulers continue winking at the cross-border smuggling that sustains the Haitian usurpers. Sugar exports to the U.S. account for most of the Dominican Republic's wealth, which isn't much. Serious sanctions would threaten an end to that trade if the Dominicans didn't close the border...
...cease this line of questioning. Tell me about the interviews that threaten to go right out of control. Eartha Kitt, Gilbert Gottfried...