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...some Senate Republicans and Democrats. Secretary of State George Shultz had been cool to such a step on the grounds that it would not bring enough pressure for change in Nicaragua. Reagan has long maintained that embargoes are ineffective (see box): his Administration called off Jimmy Carter's 1981 grain-sales ban against the Soviet Union and rejects economic sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime as counterproductive...
Embargoes frequently fail because other countries provide markets and supplies. Japan, Canada and Spain have become Cuba's major non-Communist trading partners. When President Carter imposed sanctions on grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Moscow simply found new suppliers, principally Argentina. The U.S. had tried to prevent the sale of oil- and gas-pipeline equipment to the Soviets to express its disapproval of Soviet involvement when martial law was imposed in Poland in late 1981, but Washington backed off when its European allies raised angry protests. The U.S. also imposed a variety...
...inside an airless 16-ft.-wide aluminum chamber, each entering it from a different direction. Inside, the focusing lenses are arrayed around a pellet of deuterium and tritium, two heavier varieties of hydrogen atoms. Scientists hope that when the beams simultaneously hit the pellet, which is smaller than a grain of sand, the temperature of the pellet's outer surface will be raised to 100 million degrees, causing it to vaporize explosively. Just as a rocket is pushed forward by its tail exhaust, the vaporizing surface would exert a force inward, compressing the pellet to a density 20 times that...
...after Lake Placid. I asked my Dad about Duluth "fading" and people moving. He said, "We moved to Duluth 5 years ago because Duluth is fast becoming a service center for the area. It is a regional medical center, banking center, education center, and still has a lot of grain and one shipping, with so many natural resources that the future holds promise...
...Argentine economy: As you well know, we are facing a very difficult ( situation, with an external debt in the neighborhood of $48 billion; 60% of our export earnings go to service that debt. The world price of grain has fallen by 20% to 25%, and because of that we have lost $850 million in potential income, despite a record harvest. Trade agreements discriminate against Latin America. We are having problems selling some of our products abroad. Yet to pay our debts we must have foreign currency, and to earn foreign currency we must export. An even greater problem...