Word: embargoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have a situation where they have said, 'We're going to lift the grain embargo against the Soviets, the Panama Canal treaty was awful, the SALT treaty should be rejected, no aid for New York City, no aid for Chrysler, that kind of thing. You follow through on that attitude, you've got chaos," he adds...
...issue. Some argue that Afghanistan lies on their Southern boundary and therefore they have to right to support a government friendly to them against counter-revolutionaries and foreign mercenaries. Even people who do not accept the official Soviet line were critical of the American grain embargo and the Olympic boycott. The grain embargo just hurts the average person, they would say, and the Olympic boycott reduced contact between people...
...also disclosed that he has no immediate plans to end Carter's embargo on U.S. grain shipments to the Soviet Union, despite his campaign criticism of it. Reagan did not explain his decision, but Haig has argued that grain sales to the Soviets should not be resumed unless Moscow gives the U.S. something in return. Moreover, lifting the embargo would clearly dilute the tough signals that Reagan has been sending the Kremlin...
Thus, for reasons of geopolitics, the farmers who voted for Reagan partly be cause they had lost money from the grain embargo will have to wait for relief. The realities of wielding power seem to be catching up quite early with Ronald Reagan...
Washington sources also said the reported decision by President Reagan to continue for the time being the embargo on selling grain to the Soviet Union is in line with Pipes' State Department transition report. Reagan sharply criticized former president Jimmy Carter during the campaign for imposing the embargo after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, saying it unfairly penalized U.S. farmers. But Pipes wrote that there was no hurry to remove the freeze and recommended that it be kept in place at least for the first few months of the Reagan administration, a fellow member of the team said recently...