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...Cyprus, the Ankara government promptly shut down some U.S. bases and listening posts, many of which provided valuable intelligence surveillance of the Soviet Union. Mindful of Turkey's importance to NATO's Eastern flank, the U.S. felt compelled to continue military sales, including Phantom fighter jets, even while the embargo was technically still in effect. The U.S. bases were reopened in 1978 in exchange for a repeal of the ban on military shipments...
...course, intervention by the Soviets, but Moscow inevitably would pay a heavy price. An invasion would destroy any Soviet hope of strategic arms limitations talks with the Reagan Administration; it would ruin any immediate chances for a renewal of detente; it would probably bring on a new grain embargo at a time when the Soviets face a disastrous harvest; it would alienate Third World countries; it would almost certainly be resisted by Moscow's Polish "allies," an especially distasteful prospect when some 85,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan are already tied down trying to subdue another "fraternal" nation. Moreover...
...farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain. The U.S has already sold 8.8 million tons of grain since the Carter Administration's partial embargo was lifted in April...
...wheat and one-third of all farm produce ($45 billion worth) are sold overseas, propping up domestic prices to some extent and thus reducing the need for direct subsidies. The Soviets will require 40 million tons of imported grain this year. After being rebuffed by President Carter's embargo last year, Moscow has been cautious in making American purchases. They have contracted for only 6.5 million tons since Reagan lifted the embargo...
...north. By July, officials found Medflies at more than 100 sites and worriedly placed three counties under quarantine. Roadblocks were set up and officials confiscated fruit from vehicles leaving the area. Still, Brown stubbornly refused to permit aerial spraying-until the Reagan Administration finally threatened to embargo all California produce. By then, it may have been too late. Two weeks ago, on what San Joaquin farmers now call Black Friday, a fertile female Medfly was discovered in a trap placed in an apricot orchard owned by Gene Bays, a third-generation California grower in the small town of Westley...