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...London Times went so far as to call it "a forward outpost of the McCarthyist outlook," and few foreign businessmen thought that the strict U.S.-inspired embargo on "strategic" goods to Communist lands made too much sense. The embargo, they argued, had not noticeably stunted Russia's industrial growth; it tended to make Red China more and more dependent on the Soviet Union, and it deprived Western nations of much-needed markets. Over the years, bit by bit, the U.S. has had to give in to such pressure. Last week, after five months of arguing, the Coordinating Committee (COCOM...
...between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000-keep parakeets for pets, and every year about 300 happy bird owners come down with psittacosis ("parrot fever," also called ornithosis). Before the discovery of antibiotics, psittacosis was unbeatable, killed scores of people in the U.S. This led to a federal embargo on all members of the parrot family-they still cannot be imported for sale. But last week, famed old (74) Virologist Karl F. Meyer was hailed at Stockholm's International Congress for Microbiology for a research victory that was strictly for the birds: he has found...
...Nations police force to keep the peace, monitor Arab radio broadcasts, news sheets, calls for assassinations, etc.; 2) a new international-assistance plan for Arab refugees still homeless after the Arab-Israel war of 1948; 3) a new international economic development plan. Considered but discarded to date: an arms embargo for the Middle East...
Khrushchev could be counted upon to demand that the Anglo-American forces get out immediately, and that the great powers bind themselves not to intervene militarily in the Middle East from now on. He might get further mileage out of proposing an embargo on arms shipments to the area, knowing that the West would not abandon arms support of the Northern Tier of nations. The U.S., to accent the positive, would propose, among other things, an international economic development fund for the Middle East and a strengthening of U.N. capabilities to deal with "indirect aggression...
...embargo is being eased in response to increasingly heavy pressure from European, Japanese and even many U.S. businessmen for more trade with the Communists. The U.S. itself wants to encourage trade with certain satellites, notably Poland, to try to pry them from the Soviet economic orbit. Furthermore, the U.S. no longer believes that the embargo is hampering the Soviet economy, because in many fields the Reds' technology is roughly on a par with the West...