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...most dangerous potential threat to American software manufacturers, surprisingly, has not materialized. While the Japanese are making initial forays into the hardware side of personal computers in the U.S., the only major Japanese software export hits have been games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. Concedes Hisao Ishihara, managing director of the Japan Software Industry Association in Tokyo, which represents nearly 200 companies: "The number and variety of Japanese products are indeed behind American ones, and our industry will
...bankers argued that Argentina could pay at least part of its interest with some $400 million or more that the country has on hand from the sales of such exports as meat and grain. But Grinspun said the money was needed to pay for imports. He asked for new loans and suggested that Argentina be given 15 years to pay off its debt, nearly half of which comes due this year. "I must declare very clearly to you," the Minister warned, "that Argentina cannot continue to devote two-thirds of its export earnings and 8% of its national production...
...testing of new ones, an agreement on avoiding an arms race in space. Opposes build-down idea of removing two warheads for each new one deployed, because he feels it is at odds with the freeze. Advocates Senate ratification of SALT II. Wants to tighten controls on the export of nuclear materials. Urges treaties banning chemical and biological weapons if compliance can be verified...
Heroin, once mostly an export, is now a scourge at home
...readying it for the needle. It could be the South Bronx, East Los Angeles, Amsterdam or London-the traditional dumping grounds for Asia's deadly commodity, heroin. But this is mid-afternoon in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, where heroin has long been perceived as an illegal export sold only abroad to residents of the U.S. and other weak-willed Western cultures...