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...buck up the supply and bring down the price of feed, the Administration clamped a temporary embargo on exports of soybeans and cottonseed. This week the Administration will announce a stiff program of export controls on these feeds, and perhaps corn as well. President Nixon acted after the Commerce Department reported that export commitments for June, July and August were so great that the nation was in danger of running out of the pea-shaped, yellow or green, protein-loaded soybeans before the next harvest begins in September...
...that it planned to sell 114 Mirage jet fighters to Libya, the French Premier of the moment, Jacques Cha-ban-Delmas, assured the Israelis that the planes would never be used against them. If the Libyans transferred a single Mirage to Egyptian control, he declared, "we shall put an embargo on the planes that have not yet been supplied." Those assurances have been regularly renewed...
...first significant step. In recent years policy statements have been issued by the Field Museum, the University Museum in Carbondale, Ill., the University Museum in Pennsylvania and all the collections of Harvard University. They all agreed not to buy any ancient artifact whose pedigree was in doubt-and their embargo extends to accepting gifts of such pilfered material from collectors...
...excoriated for preaching the American gospel to wayward nations; whenever the U.S. intervened abroad, however gingerly, it was bound to suffer a certain amount of liberal rebuke. Yet here were liberals telling the Russians how to behave at home -although many of them would hardly have suggested a trade embargo of the Soviet Union because of similar treatment meted out to the Ukrainians, for instance, or because of the fact that thousands of nameless Russians are in labor camps, or even because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The conservatives who voted for the amendment are hardly more consistent. While usually...
...adhere publicly to its 1968 total embargo on weapons sales to the belligerent nations of the region. The theory goes that arms and ammunition are turned over to established smugglers and shipped in compartments concealed in specially fitted vehicles. The underworld then takes advantage of the arrangement: on the return trip, the same compartments are filled with drugs...