Word: cutbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During the last three months of 1979, the Soviet Union imported 9 million tons of feed grains, enough to keep the embargo from being felt for three months. Soon, however, agricultural officials will begin making plans for a preliminary cutback of their flocks and herds ?first poultry, which can be replaced quickly in better times, and then pigs, which also can be brought back fairly fast. This will result in more chicken and pork in the stores, but because the country lacks enough freezers, the supply will run out in a few months. Western experts believe the Soviets will...
Even before the summit began, Sadat had reacted strongly to the Kremlin-decreed coup in Kabul. He ordered a cutback in Soviet diplomatic personnel in Cairo, severed all ties with the pro-Moscow regimes in Syria and South Yemen, and announced that Egypt would provide training camps and military assistance for the Afghan rebels. Sadat's Defense Minister, Kamal Hassan Ali, disclosed that the Egyptian and U.S. air forces had conducted joint exercises in recent weeks, to prepare for a contingency that might require the Americans to use Egypt's facilities. Among the U.S. aircraft deployed...
...cutback in Iran reduced supplies to the non-Communist world by about 4%. That was enough to produce a precarious balance between world supply and demand. Spot shortages cropped up, and the industrial West went through a kind of buyers' panic; governments and companies scrambled to purchase every drop available, to keep houses warm and the wheels of industry turning, and to build stockpiles to guard against the all-too-real prospect of another shut down in Iran or a supply disruption somewhere else. The lid came off prices with a bang. OPEC raised prices during 1979 by an average...
...army was entrusted with the task of training and equipping the Pasdaran, an assignment the army deeply resented for two reasons: the army itself faced a shortage of equipment and a cutback in supplies, while the Pasdaran had a seemingly limitless budget. Army leaders did not hide their satisfaction when the Pasdaran, basically an urban force, fared badly in mountain warfare against the Kurds. The army, by contrast, refused to be drawn into hit-and-run encounters with the insurgents...