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...measures President Carter has taken thus far to register American outrage at the intervention--economic responses, including reductions in grain sales and high technology assistance, and symbolic responses, like the reduction in embassy staffing--make their point well enough: that if Soviet leaders resort to military force to pursue their interests abroad, they will forfeit many of the benefits of detente. Food should not be used as a political tool when its denial might cause starvation, but in this case Carter's action will demonstrate to the Soviets that America is willing to sacrifice profitable grain deals in protest...
...said the people in the Soviet Union most concerned with grain are not the same people who plan military operations...
President Carter's imposition of a grain embargo on the Soviet Union drew a mixed reaction yesterday from Harvard political experts...
...grain embargo is largely a "symbolic gesture," because the Soviets will have a sufficient supply of grain from their own stockpiles and from indirect purchases from third parties, May said...
...embargo will permit the Soviet Union to buy only what remains of eight million metric tons of grain the U.S. is obligated to sell them. The U.S. will withhold an additional 17 million tons promised to the Soviets...