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But nearly four decades after the Cuban missile crisis, the world continues to wait, wondering whether a lifting of US trade and tourism sanctions or a change in leadership in Cuba will arrive first.
(This story is also the off-lead at the New York Times and the Washington Post .) The NYT goes with the South Korean president's call for the West--including the U.S.--to drop its sanctions against North Korea, and the WP leads with the news that Mexican drug cartels are, via a new far more potent strain of heroin, gaining a growing share of the U.S. drug trade.
The sanctions are due to be "suspended" once the two Libyan citizens suspected of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a PanAm plane arrive in the Netherlands to stand trial before a Scottish court.
Perhaps social sanctions can stop boorish behavior more effectively than laws can.
The president needs flexibility, he said, including the ability to impose sanctions.