Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly reality since the downfall of detente--create such leverage. But even granting its existence, certain factors indicate that the economic weapon may not be so lethal. The USSR, despite its staggering economy, does possess an impressive stock of raw materials. Ant the dismal failure of the U.S. grain embargo demonstrates the need for cooperation among the Western allies if economic corrections are to have only success. Future prospects for such cohesion are not great...
Another Reagan project will require the Government to honor farm-export contracts if deliveries are scheduled within 270 days of an announced Government embargo. Farmers thus can avoid the kind of damages they suffered when the Carter Administration banned grain sales to the Soviet Union in 1980 after that country invaded Afghanistan. Reagan also said that he plans a $250 million increase in export credits to help U.S. farmers compete for Third World markets...
...Reagan insists that he has instructed his advisers never to consider the vote-getting potential of a decision, and his aides unanimously confirm it. That testimony sounds too self-serving to be swallowed whole, and there have been actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand is a refreshing change from having every issue judged by the Nixon Administration's immortal criterion: How will it play in Peoria...
...unbelievable that you should call America's vote against Britain on the Falkland Islands dispute embarrassing. In the past decade our allies have voiced opposition to many U.S. proposals. Britain was one of the first to object to the U.S. embargo on pipeline equipment to the Soviet Union. It is time the U.S. voted for its self-interest...
...pathetic that the Administration would gladly pressure Israel by withholding aid, but backs off implementing a similar policy in so many other countries. Besides pursuing its business-as-usual policy in Central America, Washington also recently decided to life the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. The White House brain trust erroneously believed such a policy could work but realistically calculated that the political backlash from farmers would be too great to maintain the ban. No such qualms sidetracked the Administration in its attempt to detail the Israel appropriations bill. Maybe the socalled "Jewish Lobby" on Capitol Hill...