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Even if the Reagan Administration continues to hold back emergency shipments of grain to Poland, it ought to make available the mountains of stockpiled cheeses. There would be no doubt among Poles as to where these unfamiliar-tasting cheeses came from...
...Postponing negotiations on a new long-term grain treaty to replace an accord that expires next September. Reagan left untouched the current pact, which allows Moscow to buy up to 23 million tons of grain by September...
Equally important is what Reagan did not do. He did not embargo the sale of grain to the Soviets, which could have dealt the U.S.S.R. a real economic blow. The Soviet Union is suffering its third poor harvest in a row (this year's grain crop will be the smallest since 1975), and received 50% of its grain imports from the U.S. in 1981. Blocking the sale would have been politically damaging for Reagan: in April he lifted the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the Afghanistan invasion; the farm bill passed last month might require the Administration...
During the discussion, little consideration was given to more severe measures: freezing all U.S. exports, including grain, to the Soviet Union, and pressuring Western Europe and Japan to join in a boycott. Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey all shared Reagan's feeling that some action against Moscow was needed now; Haig preferred a more cautious approach until the allies could be persuaded to join in the measures, but he readily agreed to the sanctions...
...food embargo against Poland would no doubt cause hardship but would not end martial law the victims would be the Polish people, not their leaders. A similar embargo aimed at the Soviet Union would hurt American farmers at least as much as the Carter administration's futile ban on grain trade over Afghanistan--Reagan's paradoxical lifting of the ban proved that much...