Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced his liberalization measures, which are designed to culminate in free elections next June, the Shah and Premier Sharif-Emami have lifted restrictions on the formation of new political parties, curbed the activities of SAVAK, Iran's notorious secret police, and cracked down on widespread corruption among profiteering businessmen and former government officials. General Nematullah Nasiri, who was head of SAVAK for 13 years before he was fired last June, has now been brought back from his post as Ambassador to Pakistan reportedly to face charges of corruption and murder. The government will also press charges against Amir Abbas...
...publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts to meddle in its affairs. In February, the department helped arrange a sale of Luyt's interest in the Citizen to businessmen including Dallas Lawyer David A. Witts and Beurt SerVaas, chairman of the Curtis Publishing Co. Luyt has yet to repay the loan or $3.3 million in interest...
Ater so many years of talks, protests and promises on both sides, the squabbling between the U.S. and Japan over trade might be expected to subside. In fact, tempers seem to be getting worse, not better. Yankee businessmen complain that they are still all but shut out of the Japanese market, and more and more of the American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries...
...International Trade and Industry, is that they have ample room to grow at home and do not "want to take the time and trouble involved in exports. They have got to make the effort." Echoes Yasuo Oki, a spokesman for Mitsubishi, Japan's largest trading house: "American businessmen come in here, throw up their hands at the differences in doing business in this country and go home muttering about the closed market...
...American businessmen and some Government officials take a different view. Some argue that the Japanese language constitutes a trade barrier. Assistant Commerce Secretary Frank Weil agrees that the technical quotas and tariff restrictions have now been largely dismantled and that "there are really few restrictions on manufactured goods." But, he adds, they have been replaced by something different: "a mentality on the part of the average Japanese businessman that says 'I've been told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says...