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...another move aimed at placating Americans and Europeans, Japan's Ambassador to Geneva last week told a meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that his country is "actively considering" unilaterally reducing tariffs on a broad range of goods, including computers, color films and processed foods. Japan's trading partners have long griped that, while they buy heavily from Japan, Japanese markets are effectively closed to many goods that they want to sell...
...Nixon and Ford Administrations, which had their own economic troubles with Japan, were generally satisfied with stopgap Japanese restrictions on exports to the U.S. The Carter Administration, to its 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...
With its 100 full-color plates, Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards, with photographs by Harry Burton and Lee Boltin (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Knopf; 256 pages; $35), is the finest popular book on the subject. It depicts objects that were not included in the Metropolitan Museum-Egyptian government exhibition now touring several U.S. cities, as well as black-and-white photos from the 1922-28 excavation under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. These old pictures reflect the excitement of the unsealing when Tutankhamun's treasures lay in disarray, as if at some pharaonic garage sale...
...choochoos but birds-members of the family Rallidae, including rails, coots and gallinules. No matter. It is impossible to be disappointed by this handsome book. Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley has brought his ornithological expertise and years of patient watching to bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy for experts-and some doleful news for everyone. Because they fly poorly, these birds are easy prey for predators. Their preferred nesting sites-marshes and coastal...
...path through this jungle of schools, styles, waves and blips. In Art Now (Morrow; 504 pages; $29.95) he efficiently gets the reader from abstract expressionism to superrealism. Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...