71.   Kim has argued publicly and privately that the U.S. sanctions are counterproductive, driving the fearful North Korean leadership further into isolation and alienation.

72.   Likewise, the sanctions are unlikely to affect China National Petroleum, known as CNPC.

73.   Long before tough investment sanctions were imposed last year, foreign businesses were avoiding Yugoslavia, put off by its politicized courts, poor fiscal management and rusting industries.

74.   Lawyers representing Weaver said the sanctions should have been far harsher.

75.   More selective trade sanctions would be appropriate, especially if other industrialized nations cooperate.

76.   Neil C. Livingstone, a Washington-based terrorism expert, told the group the sanctions are a weak instrument.

77.   Nevertheless, sanctions are a blunt weapon.

78.   Officials said sanctions would be a last-resort, however, because U.S. insurance companies fear that such action would harm their existing business operations in Japan.

79.   Once that is done, the sanctions are to be reviewed, and, if the panel finds Austria does not violate civil rights, presumably lifted.

80.   One senior official said that Washington had expected Iraq to pull the plug on Butler closer to October, when economic sanctions are up for review.