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Pipe-the big kind that Russia desperately needs to complete its vast gas and oil network stretching from the Pacific to the Elbe-was the second biggest topic in European capitals last week. For months, NATO has been urging a total embargo on large-diameter pipe. Sputtered a NATO official in Paris: "Sell them rifles. Even sell them atomic bombs...
...interest last week. A four-week-old strike by the International Longshoremen's Association had laid off 62,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas, left 600 ships lying useless at anchor in Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports, and backed up some 14,000 freight cars under a pier embargo...
...violated the very essence of that policy." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd said the U.S. "should invoke the Monroe Doctrine to proclaim a total embargo" on Communist military shipments to Cuba. Old Latin America Hand Spruille Braden, onetime Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, called for a U.S. military invasion of Cuba in the name of the Monroe Doctrine...
...emphasis is on letting Castro wither on the vine, while other Latino nations are helped through the Alliance for Progress. The U.S.-imposed economic embargo and the U.S. diplomatic offensive to isolate Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere have had some effects. But it is Castro's own violent behavior more than U.S. propaganda that turns the hemisphere from him, and it is Cuban mismanagement more than U.S. starving-out that is wrecking the economy...
...same time that President Kennedy's lieutenants were pleading with Congress to enact the tariff-slashing trade-expansion bill (see THE NATION), his Administration put what amounted to an embargo on many kinds of textile imports from Hong Kong. The two moves seemed contradictory, but they were closely related. Politicking for his trade bill. President Kennedy has been wooing Southern protectionists in Congress, hopes to win their votes by making concessions to their cherished domestic textile industry...