Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Resumption of efforts to "normalize relations with Cuba" by lifting the U.S. embargo on food and medicines in return for such concessions as Cuban release of U.S. prisoners, withdrawal from Angola and an end to meddling in Puerto Rico...
...wisdom and charm, darker moments in the complex relationship between the European-born U.S. Secretary and the Continent's leaders were mostly forgotten. The much-vaunted Year of Europe that Kissinger had advocated in 1973, without prior consultation, had outraged the allies. In the oil crisis and embargo of the same year, Kissinger privately described the Europeans as "craven" for failing to stand up to the oil producers. He exacerbated troubled U.S. relations with Greece and Turkey during the Cyprus invasion of 1974. Yet, as the Europeans well-and gratefully-realized, he had boldly assumed the role...
...Borghese park, thousands of street lamps glow wanly in bright morning sunshine. Thermostats are set at stifling levels in many German homes. From Berlin to Osaka, families pile into their cars for weekend pleasure jaunts, clogging highways and creating hellish traffic jams. Just three years after the Arab oil embargo that shook consuming nations and threatened economic disaster, most of the world's consumers seem to have forgotten that an energy crisis ever existed...
Although there exists no problem or dispute in the bilateral field that should affect the traditionally friendly relations between Turkey and the U.S., these have been seriously disturbed in recent years by a decision to clamp an arms embargo on Turkey for reasons totally irrelevant to them. This has created, not only in Turkey but in all countries that are friends and allies of the U.S., doubts as to the reliability of American commitments. It would seem to us that the restoration of mutual confidence, which has prevailed for so long in the relations of the two countries...
...generally higher than Democratic candidates have received in recent elections. Some of this gain obviously represents the white Baptist switch. But much of it comes from rural areas where farmers felt an affinity with their Georgia counterpart and hostility toward the Ford Administration because of the 1974 embargo on wheat sales to the Soviet Union. In Montgomery County, a rural wheat-growing area in southeastern Kansas that usually gives 60% of its vote to the G.O.P. contender, Ford won by 8,410 to 6,920-or only 54%. Carter also made inroads in the Republican farm vote in Oklahoma...