31.   A number of intermediate measures have since been suggested, including trade embargoes, targeted development aid and a crisis-response force.

32.   A resolution urging Congress to lift the trade embargo is in the State Senate.

33.   A trade embargo may also have a sharp impact on rice growers.

34.   A U.S. trade embargo is not a foreign-policy weapon to be casually employed.

35.   After being brutalized by dictatorship and squeezed by a trade embargo, Haiti is in such wretched shape that aid donors are acting with uncommon urgency.

36.   After that, there is a trade embargo until after the draft.

37.   All the while, the existence of the US trade embargo gives Castro an excuse for the shortcomings of the Cuban economy.

38.   Bush is scheduled to make a speech next week reaffirming the four-decade-old policy of maintaining a trade embargo against Cuba.

39.   Bush said he supports a bill in Congress that would strengthen the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.

40.   Bush, who campaigned as a strong opponent of Castro, has said he will never loosen the trade embargo.