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...expire voluntary trade quotas another five years, as Big Steel wanted, or abolishing the restraints altogether, as the industry's customers desired, Bush split the difference. For the next 2 1/2 years, the U.S. will hold foreign imports to 18.4% of the domestic steel market. After 1992 the barrier will be dropped. In the meantime, Bush directed U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills to try to negotiate an end to protective tariffs and subsidies around the world...
...there are no hints that these moves will be sufficient to forge a new diplomatic relationship with the Vatican. Rome's prospects with the hard-line rulers of Czechoslovakia are far dimmer. In the Soviet Union the enforced illegality of Catholicism in the Ukraine appears to present an intractable barrier. Still, when John Paul was elected Pope, it seemed just as unlikely that the Holy See would ever exchange ambassadors with Poland...
...Like the April 6, 1987 episode of Nightline, when Los Angeles Dodger executive Al Campanis said that Blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to be managers or general managers. The show, ironically, was devoted to the 40th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier...
Meanwhile, many believers in a woman's right to control her own body have become absolutists as well, hooked on the Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death by coat hanger. In April hundreds of thousands marched on Washington in a quixotic attempt to influence the very branch of Government whose independence from public pressure they count on to protect them from the mob on the other side...
...hard-line U.S. position was prompted by the trade bill passed by Congress last year, which compels the Trade Representative to battle foreign protectionist barriers aggressively. Japan's willingness to give ground last week was an encouraging sign that the country is determined to avoid a major blowup in forthcoming rounds of barrier-bashing talks required...