Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepared for the South African's visit by emphasizing her opposition to apartheid and insisting that her government would maintain the present arms embargo against South Africa. On Saturday, as the two leaders met for lunch, 7,000 demonstrators gathered at London's Trafalgar Square, where they heard Deputy Labor Party Leader Roy Hattersley call Botha's visit "an insult to Britain's black and Asian population." Still, like the other European governments, the British recognized South Africa's importance as a trading partner and as a political power...
...sent Pierre Salinger, his cigar-loving press secretary, out one night to round up a thousand of the Upmanns. A bewildered Salinger appeared next morning to assure the President he had commandeered this great treasure, whereupon J.F.K. sighed, "Thank goodness, I can sign this." He pulled the Cuban trade embargo from his desk and penned his signature, ending, among other things, the importation of Havana cigars. The world, as we well know, has never been as mellow since...
Speaking to Dobrynin on this issue was the most distasteful thing I had to do since coming to Washington. After I notified him that the embargo would be lifted as a gesture of good will because the Soviets had restrained themselves so far in Poland, Dobrynin asked, "Are there any restrictions...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick, not unnaturally, wished to take the Polish question into the United Nations. I urged the President not to render Western action subject to a Soviet veto in the Security Council, and he accepted my advice. Sanctions against the Soviet Union and the Jaruzelski government, even a total embargo by the West, were discussed. "If Defense has its way," I told my staff, "we'll have the U.S. in a war scare and the Europeans off the bridge by Christmas." Christmas was three days in the future...
...devoted to the West and to her country's friendship with the U.S. She is also among the Reagan Administration's best friends. I had to tell her that the President was thinking of going beyond the pipeline sanctions. It was possible he would impose a total embargo on the Soviet Union, even call the Polish debt into default...