Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Kennedy embargoed imports from Fidel Castro's Cuba last month, the Tampa cigar makers, who roll 97% of the 693 million Havanas puffed each year in the U.S., faced going out of business. Most of the 4,800 Florida cigar workers and their bosses grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry...
...administration spokesman said consolingly that if there is any "significant evasion of the embargo, we won't stand still for it." And so far, the only known three-cornered operation involves the makers of famed H. Uppman cigars. Before the embargo, Uppman's owners announced that they had bought six U.S.-made automatic cigarmaking machines and installed them in the Canaries...
...hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco through anyway, they should for get the whole embargo...
...explain Washington's new economic boycott of Fidel Castro's Cuba to the NATO Council-and to urge the U.S.'s allies to impose similar bans on shipments of strategic goods to Havana. Rostow's motives were harshly criticized. Asked the Dutch: Why should we embargo sales of arms to Castro when the U.S. is furnishing Indonesia's Sukarno with guns? Headlined the London Times sarcastically: U.S. REVERSAL OF MONROE DOCTRINE OVER CUBA-OLD WORLD CALLED TO PUT PRESSURE ON DOCTOR CASTRO...
...figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt hit bottom in Soviet esteem when he condemned the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and placed a "moral embargo" on U.S. sale of planes and other war materials to the U.S.S.R...