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...only upset U.S. steelmakers but also brought the U.S. Government into the argument. Acting under a 42-year-old U.S. anti-dumping law, the Treasury Department last month ruled that Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg had been dumping wire rods in the U.S., turned the case over to the Tariff Com mission for a final ruling next month. Because the Tariff Commission can boost duties retroactively, many American importers have slashed their buying just to be on the safe side. One result: imports of some German steel products are running 75% below normal rates...
...addition to sanctifying Tito's supremacy, the document included other novelties. A new Assembly will be com posed of no fewer than five chambers, each with its own specialty. One will deal with economics, others with education, social, general administrative, and federal matters. For the first time, there will be a Premier and a Vice President, although neither one is designated to succeed Tito in the event of his sudden death. Their powers will be strictly limited. Under the new constitution, the Communist Party remains the "fundamental initiator of political activity...
...both, he has written 508 songs in the past 20 years, and an average of five a year have reached France's Top Ten. As singer and performer, he has packed the Olympia in Paris. Carnegie Hall in New York, and last week he was packing the Comédie-Canadienne in Montreal on the start of a world tour. As a result of all this, plus a career as movie star (Shoot the Piano Player) and music publisher. he has acquired two chateaux, a flight of sports cars and $2,000,000. And, as a philosopher...
...Hampstead Garden Suburb, Wilson is affable, easygoing and well-liked. His wife Mary, the daughter of a Baptist minister, writes poetry and is active in her local church; his two sons, Robin. 19, and Giles, 14, litter the house with sports gear and mackintoshes. But in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery." As the Economist put it last week, "On the big things-defense, the American alliance, East-West, the need to give Labor a twentieth century look-Mr. Wilson has been consistently...
...United States toward Cuba. "The Eisenhower administration never made any distinction in practice between a radical nationalist revolution and a Communist revolution. The Communist Party does not run Cuba--Castro does. In the long run, this may be a very important distinction, and not only in Cuba. The Chilean Com- munists, for example, are Chileans first and Communists second...