Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade-with-anybody allies in Europe. Western sales to the Soviet bloc are growing by 10% a year, but the U.S. wrote up less than 2%, or $166 million, of last year's $4.2 billion total. Since its allies have not honored the U.S. embargo, says General James Gavin, president of Boston's Arthur D. Little Inc., "it is high time for the U.S. to protect its own economic interests...
Softening. The Johnson Administration, which would like to soften its enforcement of the embargo, expects the Chamber's resolution to help it get some amendments to the 15-year-old Export Control Act. But there is strong support for the embargo in Congress, and what promises to be a noisy brawl over amendments to the act will begin as soon as the civil rights fight is settled...
...France is by no means alone in running counter to U.S. policy. Britain insists on trading with Castro's Cuba, scoffs at the U.S. embargo. Says a British diplomat: "You have a Cuban neurosis, and we can't be expected to adhere to your policy while you trade with the Soviet Union." Portugal has declared that treaties granting the U.S. bases in the Azores "should be rediscussed," also hints that it may recognize Communist China. Greek demonstrators, enraged over U.S. policy toward Cyprus, last week burned President Johnson in effigy, waved signs showing him in a Turkish...
Both at home and abroad there has been growing perplexity about U.S. policy, which seems to view Communist governments in widely varying shades of Red. The U.S. demands a trade embargo on Cuba, yet freely sells wheat to the Soviet Union and its satellites. The U.S. deals with Moscow but refuses to recognize Peking, and has laid down separate sets of rules for dealing with Communist Yugoslavia and Poland...
...decisiveness in foreign affairs, the curtailment of aid was not the way to do it. Not only can his rigidity cause immediate harm in Latin America and Europe, but in the long run it may make a conservative Congress even more reluctant to accept necessary, flexible measures. The trade embargo simply will not isolate Cuba economically. By seeking to enforce it unilaterally, Johnson has succeeded in alienating our friends without hurting Castro...