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Jackson regularly professes solidarity with the oppressed workers overseas. In international trade, however, he says he will reduce the United States' trade deficit by abolishing tax incentives for American companies that build plants abroad, under the assumption that they would then reinvest in America. But such a policy would actually hurt foreing workers, since most Third World countries simply cannot afford to pay their workers American-size wages. As another Democratic economist told the Times, such restrictions would end up "destroying the only hope of the very people Jackson says he feels solidarity with...
...women's rights as seriously as those of Blacks and other groups which have suffered from discrimination in this country. Imagine the outcry if final club members were to urge us to understand why white people want to be in a club with only whites and that Blacks should build their own clubs--as people have argued with women. Schkolnick's strike against the clubs' gender elitism must be recognized as a forceful blow in a battle to destroy the clubs' overall elitism...
Mundane school-day scenes build to tragedy in Louis Malle's recollection of a childhood friendship with a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied France...
...five years on the importation of any products made by Toshiba, the Japanese electronics company, and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, a Norwegian government-owned manufacturer of computers and weapons. They were found last year to have violated export-control agreements by selling the Soviets high- tech equipment used to build quiet submarine propellers...
Last week Australia, which uses the complex for its embassy, sold part of the garden and a smaller, nearby strip to a Japanese-led consortium. The price: $450 million in cash, or about $19,000 a sq. ft. The buyers agreed to build, free of charge, a new ambassador's residence, a four-story chancellery and 43 apartments for the embassy staff. Even the 17th century Dutch might envy such a deal...