VOL. XLI

No. 27

6-July-1998

SANCTIONS

Senate Forms Task Force To Examine Sanctions Policy

US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) has announced the formation of an 18-memberbipartisan task force to examine US sanctions policy and evaluate the effectiveness ofsanctions. The Senate Task Force on Economic Sanctions will be headed by Senator MitchMcConnell (R-NY) and will begin by first examining the effect of the sanctions imposed onIndia and Pakistan following the detonation of nuclear...