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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 28WORLDCracks in the Dike
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  4. The Cuban trade blockade exhibits signs of strain
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  7.     The U.S. embargo against Cuba is losing friends fast. The
  8. 30-year-old boycott suffered two blows in quick succession.
  9. First the U.N. General Assembly approved a Castro-sponsored call
  10. for an end to sanctions; then the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based
  11. Pastors for Peace delivered 12.5 tons of illegally exported
  12. supplies to Havana.
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  14.     The 59-to-3 U.N. vote (with only Israel and Romania
  15. supporting the U.S.) was a protest against newly toughened U.S.
  16. sanctions. At the Mexican border, the Pastors for Peace truck
  17. convoy confronted U.S. Customs officials and,
  18. eyeball-to-eyeball, the government blinked. The shipment sailed
  19. unhampered to Cuba. A second one is planned.
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