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...Supports grain embargo against Soviet Union...
...Declared grain embargo against Soviet Union...
Yergin said that the Iran-Iraq War "brought us back to reality" after Americans had regarded the 1973 Arab oil embargo and the loss of Iranian oil following the Shah's fall as separate events without future implications. American "may be on the edge tonight of a third oil shock" because the Iran-Iraq war might spread throughout the Middle East...
...thought that he could now control inflation when he has been unable to for the past four years. That too has been part of his learning experience. He admits being caught off guard by inflation, though a Governor who was in office during the 1973 oil embargo and who uses OPEC as his scapegoat should not have been. "This enormous buildup in oil prices has driven inflation high and interest rates high all over the world," Carter told a town meeting in Nashville. "Had I known ahead of time that would happen, I would have put much more emphasis...
...hence its dependence on Middle Eastern oil-a goal that seemed especially worthy last week as the war in the gulf continued. Anderson's opposition to the mobile MX missile and to income tax cuts ran against election-year sentiment, as did his backing of Carter's embargo on sales of grain to the Soviet Union-a stand the Congressman took in Iowa...