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...Michael Kiaro "Evading the Embargo: Micit U.S. Arms Transfers to South Africa," in Journal of International Affairs, Spring Summer...
...government, while pretending to adhere to a 1963 United Nations embargo on military trade with South Africa, has in fact used Israel (which has refused to join the embargo) as a conduit for arms sales to the apartheid state. In 1978, American artillery shells destined for Israel ended up in South Africa. (12) An article in Columbia University's Journal of International Affairs cites U.S.-made 106-mm recoiless rifles which the South African Army got from Israel. Likewise, the South African Air Force has reportedly acquired from Israel some 25 U.S.-made Augusta-Bell 205 A helicopters...
Massachusetts residents have cut their energy consumption by one-quarter in the decade since the Arab oil embargo, state officials said yesterday...
...comments came on the 10th anniversary of the oil embargo, and coincided with a similar appeal by U.S. Rep. James L. Oberstar (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition...
...American response has been erratic--circumspect at best, incomprehensible at worst. These vacillations testify to the frustrating difficulty of enacting an effective campaign untainted with open hypocrisy. Moreover, the economic costs of some tactics have thwarted their effectiveness in "punishing" the Soviets. For example, the unsuccessful 1980 grain embargo ultimately hurt American farmers more than the Soviet government; Moscow simply bought the grain from others...