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Post by furi on Jun 19, 2007 5:59:05 GMT -4
If you have 30$ you can obtain the translated Strategic History documents in relation to Cattle Feed Strategy from the Russian Federations Archives
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 19, 2007 9:19:21 GMT -4
Some more info about the grain deal from Time – The 1995 Almanac (CD-ROM).
Note about copyright -- Using excerpts like this is acceptable. From "Printing Articles and Graphics" on the CD-ROM: All articles will be printed with the appropriate copyright notice for TIME Magazine or the Compact ALMANAC which must be included in any further use of the material. If you neglect to include copyright notices, you could be guilty of plagiarism or copyright violation.
The copyright notice is included at the bottom.
Contrary to what Rene implies when he says (Page 41), …we began to sell Russia... wheat by the mega-ton at an ultra-cheap price. Time says (July 17, 1972), …terms extremely favorable to the U.S. It was the largest grain deal ever made between two countries.
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1970s Highlights
Detente and Dissidence
[One of the high points of detente came with Nixon's visit in May 1972 to Moscow to sign the SALT treaty with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. The new relationship was supposed to result in benefits for all, especially trade for the U.S. and technology for the Soviet Union. Detente suffered a serious if not fatal blow, however, when the U.S. Congress mixed trade policy with human rights issues, notably the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate.]
(June 5, 1972) The particular document signed and sealed with such pomp was the most notable in a series of agreements that the President brings back from the Soviet Union this week: the long-expected undertaking to limit nuclear weapons, not an end to the costly arms race but still a sign of hope and good sense. Other, lesser agreements had come with similar ceremony almost every day. It had all been stage-managed carefully and the accords had been worked on for months or even years. Theoretically, they could have been revealed to the world without the Kremlin spectacular. yet the way in which they were signed and sealed gave them special import.
The meeting underscored the drive toward detente based on mutual self-interest--especially economic self-interest on the part of the Soviets, who want trade and technology from the West. None of the agreements are shatterproof, and some will lead only to future bargaining. But the fact that they touched so many areas suggested Nixon's strategy: he wanted to involve all of the Soviet leadership across the board--trade, health, science--in ways that would make it difficult later to reverse the trends set at the summit.
(July 17, 1972) U.S. trade with the Communist world last year totaled $612 million, less than the nation's commerce with Colombia. If the events of last week are any indication, however, a new era has begun for East-West trade. The Commerce Department, urged on by President Nixon, granted the Boeing Co. a license to export $150 million worth of jet equipment to China. Representatives of dozens of U.S. firms returned from a high-level meeting in Warsaw aimed at substantially increasing U.S. trade with Eastern Europe. Then, at week's end the White House announced a blockbuster: the Soviet Union has signed a three-year, $750 million agreement for the purchase of American grains--on terms extremely favorable to the U.S. It was the largest grain deal ever made between two countries.
(January 27, 1975) When Moscow repudiated its trade agreements with Washington last week, three years of delicate and arduous negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were aborted. Was something else aborted as well--namely the whole carefully crafted structure of detente between Washington and Moscow?
The Kremlin action came in angry response to conditions imposed by Congress, such as the so-called Jackson Amendment. In declaring their 1972 trade accord with the U.S. invalid, the Soviets rejected by extension the Trade Reform Act signed by President Ford early this year. Thus the U.S.S.R. spurned lower U.S. tariff rates and $300 million in Export-Import Bank credits, while reneging on their agreement to repay $722 million in wartime Lend-Lease debts to the U.S.
The Soviet decision to scuttle its trade accord with the U.S. constituted a major reversal of Kremlin policy. Determined to modernize their economy, the Russians--who will launch a vast, multibillion-dollar 15-year plan in 1976—want massive foreign investment, industrial know-how and sophisticated technology from the U.S. Although such aid has long been available from Japan and Western Europe, the Soviets calculated that only the U.S. could provide the technology for such grandiose enterprises as the $5 billion truck-manufacturing complex on the Kama River. In light of this hunger for credits, Moscow was stunningly humiliated when the Senate tacked an amendment onto an Export-Import Bank bill setting the paltry $300 million limit on the amount that would be available to the Soviets. It was probably this amendment, sponsored by Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, even more than the emigration amendment tacked onto the trade bill by Washington Democrat Henry Jackson, that finally prompted the Russians to scuttle the trade agreement. Kissinger, who opposed the credit ceiling, dismissed the sum as "peanuts." For the prideful Kremlin, it was an intolerable putdown.
Copyright (c) TIME Magazine, 1995 TIME Inc. Magazine Company; (c) 1995 Compact Publishing, Inc.
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Post by gillianren on Jun 19, 2007 15:26:04 GMT -4
I believe this whole thing led to a discussion of the word "fungible" in William Safire's On Language column, but I'd have to go look it up.
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Post by Mr Gorsky on Jun 20, 2007 5:21:10 GMT -4
Is that a perfectly cromulent word?
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Post by furi on Jun 20, 2007 6:31:08 GMT -4
My Vocabulary has been embiggened with the addition of fungible
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Post by gillianren on Jun 20, 2007 23:24:23 GMT -4
"Fungible" is a great word. Perfectly cromulent.
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Post by scooter on Jun 21, 2007 1:02:03 GMT -4
cromulent...is that what happens to bread when you leave it inwrapped too long?
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Post by Data Cable on Jun 21, 2007 8:40:44 GMT -4
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Post by parker on May 14, 2008 7:57:55 GMT -4
I am very fond of frangible. I first came across it in a book about U.S. aircraft of WW2, the Bell Aircobra was used as an armoured, piloted (!) gunnery target, the guns firing "frangible" bullets.
Somehow it sounds tasty
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