Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter also tends to give subtle, complex, something-for-everyone answers, and occasionally to fudge and hedge his positions. He has taken three different stands on whether or not he would embargo grain sales to the Soviet Union (the last: no embargo unless a national food shortage or some other emergency required it). Ford's campaign manager, James Baker, has coined a word for this Carter characteristic: "Waffability...
...major speech in Iowa, Carter indirectly raised the Watergate specter -something he had said he would not do-by linking Ford with Richard Nixon. He criticized the Republicans for imposing embargoes on grain sales to the Soviet Union and vowed to end such embargoes "once and for all." Later, however, Carter did say that he would impose an embargo in a national emergency, such as a crop failure...
...gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required," he said, "in the following fields: arms and ammunition, transport, food and medical facilities and personnel." Finally, the conference passed a resolution demanding an oil embargo against France and Israel in retaliation for their arms sales to South Africa...
...consensus: the nation still lacks a "comprehensive, long-range, understandable energy policy." Though that is a charge that few Republicans could or would dispute, energy probably will not be much of an issue in the coming campaign. In the 33 months since the shock of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, public concern about that issue has slid from white-hot worry to detached interest to what now seems to be near total apathy. A recent Gallup poll indicates that only 2% of the voting population regards energy as the most pressing national problem, above such other matters as cost...
Increased Dependence. In fact, the U.S. has become much more deeply hooked on imported crude, and the trend appears unlikely to be reversed. Imported oil presently supplies an astonishing 41% of U.S. needs, v. 29% before the embargo. And because Canada and Venezuela have been cutting down on oil exports, almost all of the recent increase in U.S. needs has been supplied by Arab countries; their shipments to the U.S. have doubled in the past year and now account for more than 12% of American consumption...