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...moving into exports despite the continuing plethora of U.S. laws and regulations that make it difficult to do business abroad. Last month the Carter Administration sent a hefty 250-page report to Congress on the various ways the U.S. discourages exporters. One example: the provisions of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which have never been clearly spelled out by the Justice Department. American businessmen complain that they are uncertain about what the law considers illegal bribes and what it regards as acceptable payments to local agents. Complains Lawrence A. Fox, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...past ten years, as the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, Cox has been the last holdout--the only editor who will print information criticizing Argentina's military government--information about missing people, about a corrupt system of law, about senseless murders and violence, information about a society gone haywire in its attempt to erase its internal dissent. And he has done so with daily death threats to himself and his family--even threats to his 11-year...
...recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship on the press, suspended 172 periodicals for being "socially corrupt" and dismissed some 400 journalists. Last week the U.S. charged that South Korean newspapers were distorting dispatches to give the impression that the Chun government enjoyed unqualified American support...
...remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...18th century, when the French Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin to the expunging of the Tsars...