21.   But they are still involved in trading partnerships with him and would like to see the United States ease its economic embargo against Cuba.

22.   By arguing that the real cause of the immigration crisis is the American economic embargo, Castro was repeating a long-standing Cuban position.

23.   By June, as the crisis escalated, the United Nations was on the verge of imposing a virtual economic embargo on the North.

24.   Canada and Mexico are formally challenging a new U.S. law tightening the economic embargo on Cuba and foreign companies operating there, ministers said.

25.   By arguing that the real cause of the immigration crisis is the U.S. economic embargo, both Cuban diplomats were echoing longstanding positions that Castro has espoused.

26.   Clinton recently eased restrictions on social and cultural exchanges with Cuba and has been trying to fend off Republican attempts to tighten the economic embargo.

27.   Conservatives have taken up the plea made by Pope John Paul II to ease the American economic embargo for humanitarian reasons.

28.   Croatia, Bulgaria and Bosnia are cooperating with enforcement of an economic embargo against Yugoslavia.

29.   Cuba is a potentially profitable market that is not emerging, thanks to the U.S. economic embargo.

30.   Cubans blame deficiencies on the U.S. economic embargo, which has made it increasingly hard -- and expensive -- to import desperately needed medicines and equipment.