Word: embargoing
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...group of Economics Department graduate students appear to have dodged the United States embargo on trade with Nicaragua by setting up a charity fund for the Latin American nation...
...spite of the embargo, seven students have taken it upon themselves to solicit funds, books and medical supplies to donate to Nicaragua. The grads insist that because they are donating the goods they are not breaking the embargo...
Last May, 3000 people, including about 40 Harvard students, marched in front of the John F. Kennedy federal office building to protest the Reagan Administration's declaration of a trade embargo against Nicaragua. Police arrested 589 of the demonstrators, including more than 10 Harvard students, said Gawain Kripke '88 of Adams House, who participated in the protest...
...legislated economic sanctions against South Africa. The measures to be announced by Reagan, according to the White House official, largely match line for line the seven essential points of the sanctions bill that the Senate is to begin considering this week, but go a step further by placing an embargo on the importation of arms from South Africa. Reagan's Executive action should pre-empt Congress's almost certain passage of the sanctions bill and may thus prevent an angry clash between the White House and Capitol Hill over the issue. In South Africa, where racial violence last week spread...
Beginning his West European swing on a combative note, Ortega emerged from a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez to describe President Reagan as "a fascist, like Hitler, who wants to turn Nicaragua into a giant concentration camp." Gonzalez was visibly uncomfortable. While cautioning that the U.S. trade embargo could force Nicaragua "to seek aid and support from the other side," meaning the Soviet Union, Gonzalez made no promises about increasing Spanish-Nicaraguan trade...