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...that other major embargo, the ban on selling oil and gasoline to Rhodesia, it was faring no better. Smith's friends in South Africa and the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola have been openly smuggling in enough petroleum to keep his industries running, his trucks on the road and his taxis on the streets. So heavy has been the flow of oil, in fact, that the government may have to cut it off for a while. "There is more oil in the country than we can find space for," said one oil company official last week...
...Sponge. The rush to do business with China dismays Washington, which has maintained a total embargo on Peking trade since the Korean War-and has tried with diminishing success to persuade its allies to do the same. The nations of Western Europe have agreed not to sell the Chinese any "strategic" goods, but opinions vary considerably about just what trade there should be. It would appear obvious that steel is highly strategic. The Germans argue that they are not really providing the Chinese with steel but merely with a plant to process steel that China would produce anyway...
...granting travel permits to doctors, scientists and scholars. The Communists have invariably rebuffed such overtures. Since December the Ad ministration has been conducting a complete reappraisal of its China policy. So far, the inclination has been toward further attempts to relax tensions, possibly even including cancellation of the U.S. embargo on nonstrategic trade with the Chinese. When a high-powered West German consortium recently notified Washington that it had contracted to build (on credit) big, up-to-date steel plants in Szechwan province, the Administration made no attempt to block the project...
...documents also calls upon the States to end its embargo with these mainland and propose to Peking a new phase of bilateral negotiate the items of arms control, the force as an instrument of policy, range of diplomatic representa- tion...
Flouting the oil embargo with such success by no means freed Rhodesia from the consequences of the other economic sanctions Britain has imposed on the rebellious colony. But the new flow of fuel did mean that the time when Smith and his followers would be compelled to seek a settlement had probably been postponed for at least several months...