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Economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations have been more injurious to Iraq than the war was.
(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.
In an editorial Thursday, it said there was "an element of contradiction" in President Clinton's current policy of unleashing all permissible sanctions against India while offering "every gift in its possession" to Pakistan to stop it carrying out nuclear tests in retaliation.
Clinton administration officials told us that these sanctions made it impossible to offer "carrots" to Pakistan, and that before 9/11, waiving sanctions was not feasible because of the Musharraf coup, nonproliferation concerns, and Congress's pro-India orientation.
The Times of India reported Indian reluctance to have American sanctions against it waived.