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Perhaps the most difficult decision was that concerning a grain embargo. Such a move would represent the painful reversal of a policy, based in great part on his moral principles, that food should not be used as a weapon. Halting the enormous grain shipments to the U.S.S.R., moreover, could erode the President's political support among farmers...
...Roosevelt Room, the Secretaries of State, Defense, Agriculture and Commerce presented their views on an embargo. Then the President confided that he was leaning toward that drastic move, but wanted to postpone a final decision until Friday so that he could, as he said, "sleep on it." Later, Carter's aides concluded that the danger of a political setback in Iowa would be offset by the image the President would project: a tough leader willing to put national security needs above the "parochial" farm interest. After Carter's TV address, an aide described the gram cutoff and accompanying measures...
...unlikely to punish the Soviet Union seriously.His principal move-the cutoff of grain sales-is a good show of short-term strength, yet its long-term value is arguable. Says Richard Kjeldsen, senior international economist for the Security Pacific National Bank: "I cannot think of a single unilateral embargo that has been effective. Nor can I think of an instance in the past when wheat-producing countries have actually got together to function in some concerted, cartel-like operation. An embargo on grain shipments is simply a very leaky boat...
...effectiveness of economic sanctions but still support the way Carter is dealing with the situation. One Cambridge resident, dismissing military intervention as a solution, said, "Economic sanctions probably won't be effective, but what else is there?" A Northeastern University student said he has mixed feelings about the grain embargo imposed against Russia but said he was generally impressed with Carter's handling of foreign policy...
...President Carter doesn't have enough trouble already, he may soon be accused of orchestrating events to conform to the plot of Forsyth's book. The action that sets off the universe-threatening troubles in Alternative is an American embargo on grain sales similar to the one Carter ordered last Friday. If we're in for a two weeks anything like that which President William Matthew's nation edures, better look into buying real estate in a remote area--like Venus...