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- <text id=92TT2706>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Cracks in the Dike
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 28
- WORLD
- Cracks in the Dike
- </hdr><body>
- <p>The Cuban trade blockade exhibits signs of strain
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. embargo against Cuba is losing friends fast. The
- 30-year-old boycott suffered two blows in quick succession.
- First the U.N. General Assembly approved a Castro-sponsored call
- for an end to sanctions; then the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based
- Pastors for Peace delivered 12.5 tons of illegally exported
- supplies to Havana.
- </p>
- <p> The 59-to-3 U.N. vote (with only Israel and Romania
- supporting the U.S.) was a protest against newly toughened U.S.
- sanctions. At the Mexican border, the Pastors for Peace truck
- convoy confronted U.S. Customs officials and,
- eyeball-to-eyeball, the government blinked. The shipment sailed
- unhampered to Cuba. A second one is planned.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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