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...hailed as a calm and soothing replacement, a man to whom power flows naturally. Last September he engineered what then seemed the sound plan of trying to bring Jordan into negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Soon afterward, he succeeded in quietly reversing the Administration's impetuous embargo on parts for the Soviet gas pipeline, which threatened to split the NATO alliance...
...agreement helps soothe the jangled nerves caused by U.S. policies during the past few years on sales to the Soviet Union. In 1980 the Carter Administration imposed a partial embargo on such sales in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets responded by lining up other suppliers, including Argentina, Canada, the European Community and Australia. Result: the embargo was almost ineffective and cut the U.S. out of sales just when Soviet demands were surging. During the past twelve months those sources supplied 80% of Moscow's import needs. Before the embargo, the U.S. provided 70% of Soviet...
They are returning this summer not with bombs or bands, as they have in the past, but quietly and assuredly, like friends of the family. American tourists, who were driven from Europe by the dollar devaluations and the oil embargo of the early 1970s, are finding their way back in force. From Sicily to Skye and Positano to the Parthenon, the accents of Dixie and down East can be heard again in the pubs and bistros and trattorie, in cathedrals, castles, stately homes, museums, opera houses and a million stores...
...week siege of Beirut, have improved, although a sense of strain on both sides remains. One of the most important effects of Shultz's trip earlier this month was to restore relations between the two countries to a sort of equilibrium. Last week President Reagan lifted the embargo he imposed last June on the sale of advanced F-16 jet aircraft to Israel. The U.S. has no intention, however, of reinstating the November 1981 "memorandum of understanding" on strategic cooperation that entitled Israel to broad U.S. collaboration on military matters. That memorandum was canceled by the U.S. after Israel...
...addition to questioning the effectiveness. Bok argued that divesting only from South Africa-related companies would be inconsistent, since there are "groups who might not view South Africa as a special case and would press the University with equal fervor to extend its embargo to avoid any connection with Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Soviet Union, and other countries toward which they had strong moral objections...