Trade with the Soviet Union
Sir,—ln 1980 President Carter, in retaliation for the Soviet Union’s military aid to Afghanistan, banned United States grain shipments to the Soviet Union, breaking the solemnly-undertaken contractual obligations of a commercial treaty. “The Press” of July 31, 1983, under the headline, “Grain deal with Moscow pleases Washington,” reported that the Reagan Administration had concluded a new grain deal with the Soviet Union. It was not the Soviet Union, but the United States which suffered from the embargo. President Reagan himself tried to obstruct Western Europe’s participation in the Siberian gas pipeline project to no avail. The Western world cannot do without Soviet trade. The fantasies indulged in by E. F. Spencer and T. R. Loudon are delusions. “The valid point that trade embargoes are the most effective means of easing the Soviet military threat,” is wrong on two counts. Reality has shown that embargoes are self-destructing, and there is no Soviet military threat. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 24, 1984.
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