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...issue. Some argue that Afghanistan lies on their Southern boundary and therefore they have to right to support a government friendly to them against counter-revolutionaries and foreign mercenaries. Even people who do not accept the official Soviet line were critical of the American grain embargo and the Olympic boycott. The grain embargo just hurts the average person, they would say, and the Olympic boycott reduced contact between people...
...also disclosed that he has no immediate plans to end Carter's embargo on U.S. grain shipments to the Soviet Union, despite his campaign criticism of it. Reagan did not explain his decision, but Haig has argued that grain sales to the Soviets should not be resumed unless Moscow gives the U.S. something in return. Moreover, lifting the embargo would clearly dilute the tough signals that Reagan has been sending the Kremlin...
Thus, for reasons of geopolitics, the farmers who voted for Reagan partly be cause they had lost money from the grain embargo will have to wait for relief. The realities of wielding power seem to be catching up quite early with Ronald Reagan...
Washington sources also said the reported decision by President Reagan to continue for the time being the embargo on selling grain to the Soviet Union is in line with Pipes' State Department transition report. Reagan sharply criticized former president Jimmy Carter during the campaign for imposing the embargo after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, saying it unfairly penalized U.S. farmers. But Pipes wrote that there was no hurry to remove the freeze and recommended that it be kept in place at least for the first few months of the Reagan administration, a fellow member of the team said recently...
...result, Soviet production of beef and pork has fallen significantly, say U.S. observers. If the Soviet winter-wheat crop this spring is as poor as expected, Soviet economic planners may face the uncomfortable choice of increasing costly grain imports from Canada, Argentina and Australia or trimming back further on cattle herds and poultry flocks. That could mean years of less meat for Soviet consumers, a prospect that should cause some concern for Kremlin leaders. While Soviet citizens are hardly as restless as the Poles, it was last summer's meat shortages and price hikes that touched off the worker...