Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's advisers did what they could to distract attention from Bitburg. Shortly after the President's arrival in Bonn, they announced an embargo on trade between the U.S. and the Marxist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. They also quietly suggested that Kohl was mainly responsible for the Bitburg debacle, even as they publicly insisted that there had been no damage to the close relationship between the two leaders and their countries...
...time to raise the diplomatic stakes in Central America. Within hours of the President's arrival in Bonn last week, the Administration had certainly done that. At a press conference, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes revealed that beginning this week, the U.S. would put into effect an economic embargo against Nicaragua. The sanctions, as President Ronald Reagan put it in a formal message to Congress, "should be seen by the government of Nicaragua, and those who abet it, as unmistakable evidence that we take seriously the obligation to protect our security interests and those of our friends...
...embargo on U.S.-Nicaraguan trade...
...laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...fact, what had changed was less the situation in Central America than the atmosphere on Capitol Hill. The idea of an embargo against Nicaragua had come up for presidential consideration six or seven times over the past few years. Most recently, beginning last January, it was raised by some Senate Republicans and Democrats. Secretary of State George Shultz had been cool to such a step on the grounds that it would not bring enough pressure for change in Nicaragua. Reagan has long maintained that embargoes are ineffective (see box): his Administration called off Jimmy Carter's 1981 grain-sales...