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...Their mission: to deliver 25 tons of donated food, medical supplies and toys to relief agencies in Nicaragua. But as the vehicles tried to cross the Mexican border from Laredo, Texas, last week, U.S. Customs officials insisted that the convoy drivers pledge not to violate the Administration's trade embargo by leaving their vehicles in Nicaragua. The drivers refused, claiming Nicaragua needed the rolling stock to transport children to hospitals and crops to market. After an eight-day stalemate, the convoy organizers decided to turn around and take their case directly to Washington, where they planned to lobby Congress...
Even after President Reagan imposed a trade embargo against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime in 1985, Americans partial to that country's rich coffee , could still find it in gourmet stores (at about $7 per lb.). The Administration allowed the coffee to be sold because it did not enter the U.S. directly from Nicaragua: foreign firms roasted and packaged the beans, then delivered them to American companies. But now the Treasury Department is considering an outright ban as a way of further pressuring the Sandinistas to become more democratic...
...target date is two weeks before Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan begin their summit in the Soviet capital. Agreement on Afghanistan would resolve an issue that has troubled relations for nearly a decade, prompting a U.S. grain embargo and keeping Americans home from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow...
...temporary ban was imposed in 1984 to halt an epidemic of canker, a deadly plant disease. In response to the end of the ban, Texas declared a 30- day embargo on Florida imports to allow time to make a case that canker remains a threat. Florida growers, who sold $25 million worth of citrus in the banned states in the 1983-84 season, aim to challenge the Texas embargo in court...
After the talks, Shultz did not say whether the Soviets agreed to support the seven-month U.S. effort in the United Nations to impose a worldwide arms embargo against Iran for refusing to comply with a U.N.-ordered cease-fire in the Iran Iraq...