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Free speech and free elections were not the only innovations: gambling was legalized and nude bathing was sanctioned.
The LAT does: What Clinton signed was a U.N.-sanctioned international treaty.
Speculation: 1) through the covert shipment of oil to Iran; 2) from the approximately $300-million worth of oil the United Nations lets him sell to Jordan each year; 3) by skimming funds from the sanctioned sale of $2 billion in oil that is supposed to buy food for his people; 4) from a secret Swiss bank account; 5) by playing the oil futures market, which he manipulates by creating the impression that the United Nations is about to lift the sanctions in reward for his changed conduct.
The roots of the current tax revolt go back to 1993, a recession year in which voters narrowly approved the Republican Party sanctioned Initiative 601.
In the community, the entire family may be sanctioned because one member is ill; in an impoverished society with no safety net of public services, this can be ominous for everyone [3].