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...tantalizing rhythms and familiar refrains of the music abolish distance for the space of an evening, carrying listeners back to the warm friendships, relaxed pace, and traditional ways of the homelands that, for better or worse, they have left behind...
Among other things, the Japanese promised to abolish some nontariff barriers, eliminate certain export promotion measures, stockpile crude oil, liberalize foreign aid and speed up the growth rate of the Japanese economy from its present annual rate of 5.3% to 7% next year. A key provision calls for tariff reductions averaging 23% on 318 items, mostly industrial goods. For example, the 6.4% Japanese tariff on imported autos would be entirely eliminated. Tariffs on computers would be dropped from 13.5% to 10.5% and on color film from 16% to 11% -two important items. But quotas on the amount of beef that...
Starting Jan. 1, however, the government of Socialist Chancellor Bruno Kreisky will abolish 502 of the splendid titles bestowed upon civil servants under the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, until now, faithfully preserved by two Austrian republics. A mere 108 titles will remain in official use. Many of these will be simplified in an attempt to humanize and democratize relations between Austria's 7.5 million citizens and its 345,000 federal bureaucrats, who are notorious for their sloth and discourtesy...
...credit, is taking a different line. Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it. Strauss wants the Japanese to abolish quotas on agricultural goods and lower tariffs on myriad manufactured products. Says he: "Right now we're getting the worst of it on computers, calculators, film, citrus fruits, meat, certain textiles." He also wants the Japanese to relax or abolish specification and inspection requirements used to keep out foreign goods. Says...
California's decision to abolish indeterminate sentencing was precipitated by a liberal outcry over the 22-year incarceration of a child molester. In other states, conservatives have led the drive, accusing parole authorities of excessive leniency. Last year Maine became the first state to adopt determinate sentencing in a public protest over crime by parolees...