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...that rulers and nations place upon nonverbal communication. Presidents soon learn that they can hardly do anything that is not taken to be a signal of some sort to somebody. So it is, too, with the governments under them. In March President Reagan, questioned about lifting the post-Afghanistan embargo on grain sales to the U.S.S.R., told reporters that he did not see how he could do it "without sending the wrong signal" -which is exactly what critics accused him of when he did kill the embargo the next month. Why did the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reject Ernest Lefever...
...admit: the new Administration's means and goals for managing the relationship are still taking shape and, in some cases, are still under debate. As a foreign ministry official points out, "Even the one initiative in recent months that we have welcomed here-the lifting of the grain embargo-was motivated solely by domestic political considerations. It was potentially important for your relations with us, yet the decision was made in a foreign policy vacuum. We're waiting to see how that vacuum is finally filled...
...unload some of the Government's butter on world markets at a competitive price before it turns rancid. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig worries lest any additional butter on the world market be bought up by the Soviet Union. Now that the Government has lifted its grain embargo to the U.S.S.R., Haig seems to be saying, "All the bread you want, but no butter...
...nondescript conference room within the walled compound of the Soviet Office of Trade. Seeley Lodwick, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and chief U.S. negotiator, described the bargaining as "cordial and frank." The Soviets carefully refrained from castigating the U.S. as an unreliable trading partner for imposing the embargo, although as one U.S. official put it, "I am sure they are thinking it." The Soviets, however, gave no indication of just how much of the 6 million additional tons of grain they might buy before Sept. 30. Moscow has satisfied nearly all its grain import needs for this year...
...pruned, pared and sometimes slashed as exporting nations find themselves scrambling to hold on to customers. Not even last week's Israeli air attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor outside Baghdad did much to firm up the weakening price of crude. Though sporadic calls for an oil embargo of the U.S. echoed through the Arab world, petroleum prices stayed stagnant on the bellwether spot market, where much of the world's current excess is traded daily. At approximately $32 per bbl., spot market crude is now selling for nearly 20% less than last autumn...