Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R. amounts to much less than 1% of the Soviet gross national product. Nor had the U.S. displayed the willingness and ability to use very effectively what economic leverage it had. In April 1981, the Administration misplayed the strongest card it held when President Reagan lifted the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. President Carter had embargoed the sale of U.S. agricultural products to the U.S.S.R. in January 1980 in reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the campaign, Reagan had promised to lift it. Secretary of Agriculture John Block reminded him of that promise at the very first...
...would have opposed imposing the embargo in the first place. To use food as a weapon is bad policy. But now that the embargo was in place, lifting it involved worldwide consequences. Warsaw Pact troops were maneuvering along...
...attempts to persuade Block and Meese, and ultimately Reagan, that the embargo was a very important foreign policy issue did not succeed. It was viewed almost exclusively as a domestic issue. When, finally, the embargo was lifted, it came as a sudden action. On April 21, Meese summoned me to the White House and informed me that the embargo would be lifted on Friday, April 24. This left virtually no time to consult with other governments. There was no provision for a decent interval in which our friends and allies could do all the things that are necessary to minimize...
...York Times I discovered that my "take-charge" style had earned me the nickname CINC-WORLD, or Commander in Chief of the World. From other reports, it appeared that I had raised hackles by pointing out the foreign policy implications of the grain embargo and auto imports, by reassuring our allies on our plans with respect to the neutron bomb and by the nature of my personality. The fanciful story about my thrusting a "20-page memorandum" into Reagan's hands as he returned from his swearing-in took root in the press and demonstrated once again that gossip...
Though he lifted Carter's grain embargo, Reagan opposes any limits on his Administration's right to impose trade sanctions. Warned Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, who voted against the measures curtailing presidential power: "The Administration would consider this to be so great an intrusion into the foreign policy area that it is highly likely to result in a veto...