31.   Cowal is president of the newly established Cuban Policy Foundation, which favors lifting the U.S. economic embargo and normalizing relations with Cuba.

32.   Economic embargoes by the United States, the European Union and other nations have helped bring the economy to a near standstill.

33.   During the Bosnian war, Greek companies shipped oil to the Bosnian Serbs and to Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia, in violation of the United Nations economic embargo.

34.   Especially since the tightening of the economic embargo in June, the normal flow of business here has functioned in reverse.

35.   Exchanging verbal volleys with Cuban President Fidel Castro, the Clinton administration Thursday firmly rejected negotiations with Cuba over the flood of refugees or the U.S. economic embargo.

36.   Forty years of communist rule, along with four decades of a U.S. economic embargo, have left this gorgeous island in something of a time warp.

37.   Gephardt and other opponents warned that the United States was making the same mistake it made with South Africa before using economic embargoes to force a change in apartheid.

38.   He also urged the world to open itself to Cuba, a message clearly directed at the United States and its economic embargo against the Caribbean island.

39.   He is known as an anti-Communist, but he also criticizes what he calls savage capitalism and opposes economic embargoes, two views that match those of Castro.

40.   He declined to confirm media reports that Cuban officials had arrested Vesco in an effort to persuade the Clinton administration to ease the economic embargo against Cuba.