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Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney promised that any agreement reached with the U.S. would be made within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and thus would not have an adverse effect on Canada's other trading partners. Later, Nakasone, speaking in both French and English before the Canadian Parliament, decried what he saw as a rising tide of protectionism. Likening international free trade to "a fragile porcelain doll," the Prime Minister went so far as to concede that Japan should be more open to imports. Officials of both countries later revealed that Tokyo had agreed...
...after all these years, humankind is still unable to agree on the location or even the existence of the female orgasm, then how can we come to agreement on more substantive questions like Americans still imprisoned in Viet Nam or the Soviets' cheating on arms control? Robert Marcuson Fair Haven...
There is one area of general agreement about what has caused the insurance crisis: plain old-fashioned greed. Ah, but whose greed...
...midst of Congress's struggle to pare the federal budget and close the gaping deficit, the House agreed by voice vote to send $250 million over the next five years to Northern Ireland. The money will go into an international economic-support fund established under an Anglo-Irish agreement signed last year by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share Irish ancestry but rarely see eye to eye: Ronald Reagan and House Speaker...
...combined forces of Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon. The melee raised questions not only about the future of Herut and Likud but about the ability of Shamir to take over as Prime Minister in October under the terms of his coalition agreement with Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres...