Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week by requesting that it pull its forces back from West Beirut to the positions occupied at the beginning of the week. There was not much hope that Israel would comply. Washington, however, did veto a Soviet resolution at the United Nations calling for a worldwide arms embargo against Israel...
...Department after the Israeli invasion and asked that Reagan "exercise a more potent role [and] shoulder his responsibility in full, for Arab patience has run out. In Kuwait, some members of parliament called for severance of diplomatic and economic ties with the U.S., including the imposition of an oil embargo. Tarik Aziz, a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, told TIME...
...extension was an understandable compromise between domestic political pressure from the farmlands and foreign policy concerns. Though President Reagan had lifted in April 1981 the partial embargo on grain sales that had been initiated by Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he also abruptly cut off talks for a new, multiyear grain deal with Moscow after martial law was imposed in Poland last December. Since the military crackdown in Poland is still in effect and European allies are squawking about U.S. opposition to helping build the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Reagan could hardly strike a long-term grain...
...press conference last week. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who had likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...
...that the impasse, which one White House expert says "has caused the most disruption in the alliance in 20 years," has been resolved. The Reagan Administration insisted again last week that it is committed to the sanctions. But France and Italy have rejected the embargo outright, and West Germany and Britain announced that they would encourage companies to honor construction contracts signed with Moscow...