Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American government should impose such a made embargo against South Africa now and encourage the British to join. These sanctions, already advocated by the United Nations General Assembly, might bring sreversal of apartheid...
...Communism in Cuba is "not negotiable." But he has not devised ways to translate those words into action, beyond efforts to tighten the economic isolation of Cuba. Last week State Department officials reported that the U.S. is preparing to ask the Organization of American States to declare an economic embargo against Cuba...
Psychological Crust. Rubinstein has long fortified his total embargo of Germany and Germans with gallows humor ("There are 90 million Jews in the world today. Why? Because there are 30 million Germans, and each reports he personally saved three Jews during the war"). He still harbors the dark suspicion that the presence of one vestigial Nazi dreaming in the dark of a concert hall while listening to a Rubinstein Appassionata would freeze his fingers into furious claws. But the jokes are worn with time, and the thriving German market for Rubinstein recordings has diluted his horror of German ears. Last...
...deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...
There the issue could have simmered indefinitely; but last week the British calmly announced that, since they had never supported NATO's pipe embargo in the first place, the government had no objection if a British firm accepted a Soviet deal for pipe that Bonn had just canceled. That only one British company was technically equipped to turn out small amounts of large-diameter pipe-and had not even received a bid from Moscow-was of small comfort to U.S. and West German officials. Nor were they reassured by the fact that Italy, a major supplier of Soviet pipe...