Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, war no longer served to create unity but to sever it. It was the home-grown calamity of a blackout that welded a populace; the oil embargo served not to weaken national resolve, but to bolster it -although that resolve ebbed when the gas pumps flowed. In these cases, moral equivalency worked because the crises were perceived as serious but not desperate (the embargo) or desperate but not serious (the blackout). Americans could wryly agree with Historian D.W. Brogan's citation of the contrast between democratic government and the nondemocratic, which "is like a splendid ship, with...
...group backed by Angola, is excluded from Pretoria's independence plans, and has vowed to fight until it can bring about a government of its own. At the U.N., South Africa has thus far escaped efforts by black Africa-supported by the Communist bloc-to impose an arms embargo against it and a ban on foreign loans and investment; but that fight is likely...
...team of basketball players from South Dakota, accompanied by the state's Democratic Senators, George McGovern and James Abourezk. The South Dakotans were blasted off the court by the Olympic-class Cuban roundballers, but McGovern came home full of zeal for ending the 16-year-old trade embargo. Last week another U.S. group with a keen interest in that project went to Havana: 50 business leaders from Minnesota...
Most of the businessmen represented firms that did business in Cuba before the revolution: Honeywell, Pillsbury, General Mills, Bemis. They want to be in on the ground floor when the embargo is lifted-which virtually all consider certain to happen. But their Cuban hosts, cabled TIME Correspondent Chris Ogden, who traveled with the group, seemed doubtful at first. Over and over they asked their guests whether they really thought the embargo would end. Groaned one Minnesotan later: "How many times do you have to tell your wife you love...
...warned his visitors not to set their hopes too high. Cuba was interested in advanced technology, fertilizer and farm equipment, he said. "But I would be lying to you if I tried to make you think that tomorrow many commercial opportunities will immediately emerge." He argued that the embargo contradicts the Carter Administration's human rights policy because its purpose is to "damage a people." He added: "The U.S. defends free trade, so why not with...