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...offshore oil. The Vietnamese need for normal diplomatic ties with the U.S. became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent of the rice crop, and Vietnam now needs the American trade embargo lifted to gain access to U.S. agricultural products. While the chronic Third World ailments are forcing Vietnam to push for closer ties with the United States the Carter administration, by not responding to Vietnamese gestures, is sacrificing any ability to realize the long term interests that the U.S. was supposedly protecting...
...amazing how Gerald Ford would have managed the approval of the Panama Canal treaty more quickly, ended the Turkish arms embargo and sold planes to Saudi Arabia and, at the same time, would have moved ahead with a modest tax cut, kept the B-l bomber, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile and designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternate sources without taxing them. All he needed was four more years. It seems that the poor little country boy from Plains, Ga., has managed to get some things accomplished without previous...
Five years have passed since Zambia joined the U.N. boycott against Rhodesia. During that time, Rhodesia has managed to survive quite well with the help of embargo-breaking Western countries and supplies from South Africa. Meanwhile, Zambia's economy has dwindled toward disaster. Landlocked, Zambia needed transit routes through Rhodesia to southern Africa's ports for its main export, copper. After the boycott closed the Rhodesian borders, scarce alternative routes disappeared, world copper prices declined, and Zambia began running short of food, machinery, oil fertilizer, soap and coal. Inflation ballooned to 30%, fueled partly by expensive airfreight shipments to speed...
...Security Council imposed a mandatory embargo on arms shipments to South Africa that is still in effect...
Turkish Arms Embargo. To bolster NATO, the Administration wanted an end to the arms embargo imposed by Congress on Turkey because of its invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Over the objections of the small but strong Greek lobby, Congress agreed...