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...that guards became suspicious that he might be carrying letters when they found a letter in Father Berrigan's cell. The FBI confronted Douglas, and he turned over his copies. He then proceeded to deliver future letters to the FBI. It seems likely, however, that the defense will contend that Douglas was not discovered passing the letters, but that he was planted at Bucknell by the FBI as an informer on campus radicals. So far, defense attorneys will only say, as did Leonard Boudin last week, that release of the letters "violates standards of fair procedure and rules...
...fact, the U.S. reaction reflects more than pain in the pocketbook. American executives are enraged by what they regard as Japan's refusal to observe the rules of the game of world trade. Many American businessmen contend, with some justification, that the Japanese dump not only TV sets but also steel, textiles, float glass and radio tuners. U.S. industrialists also complain bitterly (and enviously) about the special help their Japanese rivals get from the Tokyo government: official blessings for cartels formed to win big foreign orders, lavish and extensive government-financed studies of which overseas markets might be easiest...
...first step, Japan must quickly take down the bamboo screen that blocks high-technology imports and foreign investment. Many Japanese industrialists tirelessly contend that their economy is an "adolescent" that needs protection against the big, rich, "mature" competitors of North America and Europe, but that argument clearly is not valid today. Japanese manufacturers also have an unnatural price advantage in world competition because their currency, the yen, is undervalued. Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year...
Since then, measured strictly by its own improbable expectations (Forman later upped the ante to $3 billion), the reparations movement has been something of a failure. So far, the Black Economic Development Conference (B.E.D.C.) has collected little more than $300,000. Critics contend that it does not adequately account for the money, and as a result, it has even lost the support of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, which sponsored the Detroit meeting...
Critics and audiences alike have responded with enthusiasm to Follies' stylistic inventiveness. There is less unanimity of feeling about the theme. Some ?including TIME'S T.E. Kalem?found in it Proustian resonances. Some contend that James Goldman, whose screenplay for The Lion in Winter won a 1968 Oscar, has supplied less of a book than a book jacket. For Phyllis, he wrote some pseudo-sophisticated, Manhattanite monologues that are better read than said...