Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem: the hostility between NATO members Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. One senior diplomat called the schism "a serious menace to NATO'S eastern flank, perhaps even to the alliance's future. It is a terrible wound." Making it even worse, in NATO'S eyes, is Congress's 1974 embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey, which used weapons provided by the U.S. in Cyprus...
Last week Carter began an all-out effort at persuading the House to lift the ban later this month. Meeting at the White House with 14 Congressmen who favor repeal, Carter said that the embargo had "driven a wedge" between the U.S. and Turkey and "shaken very seriously the cohesiveness of the NATO alliance" (see WORLD). In a strategy memo distributed to the Congressmen, the Administration outlined a lobbying effort every bit as intensive as the one that preceded Senate approval of the Middle East plane deal...
...hell is going on. Up until recently he did not essentially believe what he was told by many concerned people." Carter's act of open-mindedness was truly courageous, by most measures, and led to a clearer picture of the need for more defense spending, ending the Turkish arms embargo, searching for better ways to help beleaguered friends. But then THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Carter's political weakness surfaced. Talking tough was a way to rally American voters and foreign leaders, a bit of saber rattling that almost seemed to fulfill a script lightly pondered last fall by National Security Adviser...
...strongly pro-Greek U.S. Congress then imposed an arms embargo on Turkey over the objections of Gerald Ford. Turkey, in turn, reacted by shutting down 26 American military installations...
...Prime Minister James Callaghan, who will be one of twelve heads of government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit, who is one of the alliance's more disaffected members as the result of a congressionally imposed arms embargo. However, he is expected to play his cards skillfully in the hope that Carter will be successful in his effort to persuade Congress to lift the 3½-year-old arms...