Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raab stresses that unilateral military action should be a last resort. He would prefer to use trade and financial sanctions against drug-source nations such as Mexico -- also anathema to traditionalists at State and Treasury, who argue that punitive economic measures would undermine Latin American economies and drive thousands more people into the drug underground. "Before long, there may be provisions in International Monetary Fund loans about ((protecting)) elephants in Kenya and rain forests in Brazil," says Von Raab, "but there are no provisions on drugs...
...There was a real hope on the part of the Salinas administration that the new White House team would very quickly have debt, drug and trade policies in place and that all the decisions regarding Mexico would be made rationally and coherently, that Mexico would have somebody to deal with in the U.S. who is both in charge and thoroughly knowledgeable on the subject. There is a tendency in Mexico to project its own centralized, omnipotent presidency onto the U.S. side, where things do not work that...
...Israel was short-sided in believing that their hostages were the only ones who could die. Israel was bound to be the victim whether the Obeid trade-off succeeded or failed. Instead of saying, "look, those Arabs can not be trusted," many Americans are asking, "how could Israel not have known...
...Israel, officials repeated their offer to trade all the Shiites they hold from south Lebanon for three Israeli soldiers and all foreign hostages held in Lebanon...
...clearing overlooking the Athi Plains in Nairobi's game park. The pyre was a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of elephants slaughtered in Africa by poachers over the past ten years, and a symbol of Kenya's avowed resolve to end poaching and the global ivory trade that threatens the elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked from the skulls of baby elephants, it could have earned $3 million. But, said Moi, "obviously Kenya...