Word: embargoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have won it for the Republicans, had he wanted...
...cannot have a Communist country 90 miles south of us when we have the power to stop it," Goldwater told a group of reporters at a press conference in Quincy House. Noting that he supported armed intervention only "as a last step," the Senator advocated first trying "a complete embargo, enforced if need be by a military blockade...
...several occasions, rapprochement had been suggested as the only means of undercutting Communist influence in Cuba. And always the reply came that it was too late. (Maybe a week ago, but now it's too late... Maybe before we established the embargo... Maybe before we broke relations... Maybe before we sanctioned the counter-Revolution, but... Maybe before...
...legacy of unsolved difficulties that the Kennedy Administration has inherited from its predecessor, none seems more hopeless or more maliciously bequeathed than the tangle of Cuba. Much could be and was said of the State Department's mismanagement of its relations with the Castro government, and particularly of the embargo on Cuban sugar. But the Eisenhower Administration's incompetence with respect to Cuba attained new heights when, in its waning days, it no longer had to live with the consequences of its actions, it broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. Then, in its last week in office, it followed this...
There is little to prevent Trujillo from calling his turn. Last fortnight's embargo on truck and petroleum sales by the Organization of American States is largely ineffectual; the ban does not affect Trujillo's principal income earners, sugar and coffee. Trujillo has also just about completed the destruction of his only serious opposition at home-the educated upper and middle classes, which nearly brought off a coup last January...