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...represents a vast untapped source of new markets. One drug company executive summed up the American attitude, saying, "If we sell each of them (every individual in China) one aspirin, then that's selling a lot of aspirin." On February 14, just before his departure. Nixon removed from the embargo list many goods China had shown interest in buying but which had been blocked by Pentagon objections. These items included locomotives, internal combustion engines, and other industrial equipment...
...cent of the Gulf oil, and in event of war, all of it. Moreover, the Cabinda oil is especially crucial to the South African regime, which has almost no oil reserves of its own, and would depend on friendly Portugal and friendly Gulf in the event of an international embargo...
...Anglo-Rhodesian settlement fails, what will happen next? The British may well inform the United Nations that continuing the economic embargo of Rhodesia is no longer feasible, and may eventually try-probably in vain-to negotiate a new deal that will be acceptable to Rhodesia's 5,260,000 blacks as well as its 239,000 whites. In the meantime, the whites may well turn further to the right, perhaps toppling Ian Smith from office. They will deal with the African National Council as they have handled troublesome blacks in the past-by locking up the leaders...
Heavy Mail. Further, the Canadians argue that the U.S. indulges in some blatantly unfair trade practices of its own, including an embargo on the sale of Canadian uranium in the U.S. and inequitable tariffs on Canadian-made aircraft and engines, and should match any concessions granted by Ottawa. Said one top Canadian trade official: "The U.S. trade policy is not as white as driven snow." Nevertheless, the Canadians are probably willing to make a few adjustments-but nothing near what the U.S. wants...
...missile sites, airfields, supply depots, staging areas, and other targets in North Viet Nam's southern panhandle. It was by far the longest and roughest of the more than 100 strikes, large and small, that American aircraft carried out on the North in 1971. With a tight news embargo temporarily in effect in Washington and Saigon, the few emerging details of the operation came from Hanoi, which angrily charged that "the insane Americans have attacked many populated areas" in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Quang Binh provinces. The North Vietnamese claimed to have shot down 19 American planes...