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...Broken Embargo...
...must protest about TIME's breaking of the embargo imposed by Buckingham Palace on the Norman Parkinson-Camera Press portraits of Princess Anne. Your Aug. 16 issue preceded the release date by several days and has caused us both embarrassment and inconvenience...
...criticism from ultraconservatives in his Rhodesian Front party; a dozen of them have already threatened to resign if he compromises the power of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites over 5 million Africans. It also remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate vote last week to lift the embargo on Rhodesian chrome might strengthen the hand of Rhodesia's hardliners...
...Realpolitik but of moral judgment have two difficult cases to worry about. One is Greece, where in 1967 a clique of colonels overthrew a shaky but democratic and legally elected regime. After delivering some lectures and pressing for the restoration of democratic institutions, last September the U.S. lifted an embargo on deliveries of heavy military equipment to the Greek junta. An even more painful dilemma for the conscientious concerns Pakistan. In March the government there launched savage warfare against the East Pakistanis, who were seeking greater autonomy for their part of the divided country (TIME cover...
...military dictatorship in 1967, the U.S. stopped delivery of all heavy military equipment, such as tanks and field guns. Believing that it had received verbal assurances that the colonels in charge would restore some of the nation's freedoms, however, the Nixon Administration last September formally lifted the embargo on heavy arms and asked Congress this year for nearly $118 million in new aid. Though it was still not happy with the junta's internal policies, Greece remained vital to NATO's southern flank and to the Sixth Fleet, newly challenged by the Soviet navy...