Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has five leaves, grows wild over nuch of the U.S. and is so prized by users round the world that certain varieties sell in unprocessed form for as much as $2,000 an ounce? One clue: it now faces an embargo because concerned Government officials are about to cut out flourishing traffic in the plant between the U.S. and the Far East. Portions of the description might apply to marijuana, heroin or cocaine, but the only product that meets all specifications is ginseng...
With the chances for actually winning statehood seemingly stronger than ever, the P.L.O. is busily polishing up a moderate political image. It has come out against another Arab oil embargo as a way of achieving Palestinian goals; it is also busy purging "undesirables"-meaning Palestinians who profited from looting or black-marketeering during the Lebanese civil war-from its ranks. Rejectionists who cannot accept the idea of Israeli statehood are also free to leave for Libya to work for Muammar Gaddafi, the last remaining Arab leader who still holds the Israel-into-the-sea view. In fact, they have nowhere...
...broke diplomatic relations in 1961, will establish "interest sections" in each other's capitals-a step toward eventual restoration of diplomatic and trade ties. In three days of talks, Church and Castro discussed a wide range of issues-including Castro's desire to get the U.S. trade embargo lifted-on which the Senator is expected to report back to Carter. Castro had promised he had something impor tant to offer Church-and so he did. Eighty-four American citizens and their families will be permitted to leave Cuba (the Americans had previously been free...
Other publishers were afraid to take a chance with James Joyce's Ulysses, which had been banned from the U.S. for obscenity. Cerf thought he had found a way to end this embargo, however, and went off to Paris to try to sign up Joyce. For once he had no need for cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over...
...that Caracas nationalized the petroleum industry 18 months ago and now many firms are wary of risking more capital in Venezuela with its new, highly nationalistic investment rules. As for the question of preferential tariff treatment for Venezuela, eliminated by Congress for all OPEC members after the 1973 oil embargo. Carter promised to do all he could to get Congress to rectify the punitive measure...