Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiated through excruciating marathon sessions in Algiers, Tehran and Washington that repeatedly threatened to end in impasse, the agreement requires the U.S. to renounce any intention to interfere in the internal affairs of Iran, to lift its embargo against trade with Iran, and to ask its allies in Europe to do the same. These provisions have already been carried out, although little American trade is expected to be resumed for quite some time. The U.S. also agreed to help locate any assets of the late Shah and his family in America and to freeze them while Iran tries to establish...
...former colleague. Under Vance, Christopher handled more than his share of delicate diplomatic assignments, some of them at home. He was charged with rallying Senate support for the Panama Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...that he saw progress in the hostage crisis-undetected by anyone else-and won the Kansas and Wisconsin primaries that day with a boost from his TV announcement. A week later, Carter ordered the remaining Iranian diplomats out of Washington and five other U.S. cities, imposed an economic embargo on Iran, and said that claims of U.S. firms against Iran would be paid from that country's frozen assets. Khomeini said that Carter's moves constituted victory for Iran. In early-round elections for the Majlis (national assembly), Banisadr's followers did poorly, and hard-line right...
...week's end the violence had claimed more lives: five civilians were killed and two wounded when their truck hit a guerrilla land mine 30 miles from the Angolan border. Nujoma also vowed to renew his demands that the U.N. Security Council follow up its 1977 arms embargo against South Africa with economic sanctions. Britain, which has opposed such extreme measures in the past, has indicated that it might vote for a sanctions resolution. That might leave a veto up to the U.S.-and thus provide the Reagan Administration with one of its first tough foreign policy tests...
Although the U.S. grain embargo is yet to have a major impact on Soviet consumers, American farm experts say that the U.S. action may still have an effect on long-term Soviet plans for increasing meat production. For the second year in a row, the Soviets in 1980 had a mediocre crop. Moreover, while the government has so far been able to buy sufficient grain for bread, it is having increasing difficulty finding enough for animal feed. Says one Midwestern grain-industry analyst: "That situation is more difficult [for them] than during the first nine months of the embargo...