Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apart from its effects in the Midwest, will the embargo actually hurt the Soviets? Not in the short run. And not even in his moments of greatest optimism has Carter thought that it will remove a single Soviet soldier from Afghanistan...
...During the last three months of 1979, the Soviet Union imported 9 million tons of feed grains, enough to keep the embargo from being felt for three months. Soon, however, agricultural officials will begin making plans for a preliminary cutback of their flocks and herds ?first poultry, which can be replaced quickly in better times, and then pigs, which also can be brought back fairly fast. This will result in more chicken and pork in the stores, but because the country lacks enough freezers, the supply will run out in a few months. Western experts believe the Soviets will...
...fish account for about 20% of the average American diet, they provide only 8% of the Soviet diet. Demand in the U.S.S.R. is intense, but the current Five-Year-Plan calls for increasing it only 27% by 1985. That target probably could not be reached even without the embargo. But no one will go hungry because of the embargo. Russians are breadeaters, and there is no concern on that score...
...computers to the Soviet Union in 1978 and 1979. Less sophisticated equipment can easily be bought in Western Europe. There are a few categories, like oil-drilling equipment, for which the Soviets badly want U.S. products. If no substitutes can be found, Moscow will probably try to circumvent the embargo by buying American machinery through a satellite or a smaller country. As one expert remarked last week, "If all the computers shipped to Vienna were really there, the city would sink...
...estimated $375 million in constructing facilities. They are looking forward to tourist crowds of up to 300,000, plus, more important, world television audiences in the hundreds of millions. To deprive them of this might have more impact than any move the U.S. has yet made, including the grain embargo...