Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...lingering fear that it could all happen again. As the walkout proved, even a brief suspension of service has an impact. Hundreds of thousands of commuters, for example, were forced to improvise means of getting to work and back. The post office, struggling through the Christmas rush, had to embargo all second, third and fourth class mail traveling more than 300 miles...
...Vlachos discontinued publication of her newspaper in protest of the coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission on Human Rights' findings that torture is a practice...
...arms embargo has always been rather meaningless. Though shipment of tanks and certain other big items has remained suspended, the U.S. sold the Greeks a few jet fighters and trainers in 1968 and has maintained the low of trucks and small arms-precisely what the regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece...
Even with the ban, some conservationists fear that poachers will continue to slaughter the big cats, since the skins can be sold in other countries. Now this avenue appears to be closing too. The International Fur Trade Federation, a London-based union, has announced an embargo on otter, tiger and snow and clouded leopard skins...
...government was already slightly embarrassed by the hasty arrival of South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller, who flew to London for talks with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Tories assumed that Muller intended to remind them about their promise to end the Labor government's 1964 embargo on arms sales to South Africa. The Labor Party's National Executive warned Heath, however, that such action could "endanger the existence of the Commonwealth and flout the authority of the United Nations...