Word: embargoing
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Among the provisions in the bill, which was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress, are a ban on new public or private loans, investments or extensions of credit and an embargo on the import of South African uranium, coal, textiles, iron and steel, arms, ammunition, military vehicles, agricultural products and Krugerrand gold coins. The legislation would also prohibit the export to South Africa of crude oil, petroleum products, munitions, nuclear-energy equipment and computers, and cut off direct air travel between the two countries...
...health problems, none of which were very expensive, three or four really bad drought years that really set us back, perhaps some bad business decisions and maybe some management weakness. Actually we were not in bad shape until the years with the terrible interest rates and the grain embargo -- it seems in retrospect that was the real beginning of a long, painful decline to this sorry state of affairs...
...African textiles, steel, uranium, coal and agricultural products. It also bars new U.S. investment in South Africa, bans new bank loans and ends landing rights for South African Airways. The Senate sanctions stopped short of the bill voted last June by the House, which called for a comprehensive trade embargo and total U.S. disinvestment. But it was a serious setback for the Reagan Administration's policy of avoiding major sanctions in favor of "constructive engagement." Once the two houses reconcile their differences, Reagan will either have to bow to congressional pressure or be forced to use his veto...
Voting on straight party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected an attempt by Democrats to approve a sweeping, near total trade embargo on South Africa as passed by the House. But Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Daniel Evans of Washington succeeded in persuading the committee and its chairman, Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, to ask the Senate to take tougher steps than even Lugar had proposed. By a vote of 15 to 2, the committee approved a bill that would ban all new investments in South Africa by U.S. companies and prevent any U.S. banks from making...
...banning of political parties, repeal the "group areas" act, which keeps blacks out of certain residential areas, and start negotiations between white and black leaders in the country. The committee measure would require Reagan to report within six months on the extent of any violations of the existing international embargo on the sale of arms to South Africa. If evasions of the ban continued, U.S. military assistance to the offending nations could be stopped in twelve months. If there was no progress on dismantling apartheid in a year, the U.S. could extend its trade embargo to such South African exports...