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Robert A. Paarlberg, a visiting professor of government from Wellesley College, entered Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy” only to find a mob scene yesterday afternoon...
...They came today not because they knew anything about me or anything about the course, because both were entirely new,” Paarlberg said...
Sanctions often ultimately strengthen rather than weaken their intended victim. The U.N. embargo of Rhodesia, which began in 1966, spurred that country to improve greatly its own domestic manufacturing capacity. Some scholars believe that the same thing could happen in the Soviet Union. Says Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor of political science at Wellesley: "Sanctions might stimulate the Soviets to develop more indigenous technological capabilities that might in the long run strengthen the Communist state...
...seems highly unlikely that Reagan will end the restrictions swiftly, since that might enable the Soviets to snap up large amounts of U.S. grain, as they did in 1972. Observes Agricultural Economist Don Paarlberg of Purdue University: "Lifting the embargo would say to consumers that we are exposing ourselves to another great grain robbery by the Soviets, and the price of food in this country would go through the ceiling." World food stocks are now unusually low because of a combination of poor crops and rising demand. Chicago Grain Analyst Conrad Leslie believes lifting the Soviet grain embargo would lead...
...Paarlberg, chief economist of the Department of Agriculture, figures that the bill would raise retail food costs this year by anywhere from $500 million to $1.2 billion. By the 1977-78 crop year, he estimates, extra payments to farmers under the new bill could cost the taxpayers as much as $7 billion...