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...Peking is bitter about U.S. restrictions on the export of high technology and quotas on China's textile imports. Even though Reagan loosened the technology controls last year, China resents that it is still in a more restrictive category than India, which, Peking points out, has close ties to the Soviets. Failure to reach agreement on the amount of Chinese textiles that could be sold in the U.S. resulted in the quota's being frozen at the 1982 level...
Delors finally acceded to a devaluation of 2.5 percent. But the French saved face by shrewdly sizing up the German position before they made their threat. With one out of every four German jobs dependent on export, the Germans had almost a greater stake than the French in the EMS's future. For the French to pursue protectionism would have spelled disaster, derouting the Germans' own free-trade successes. Such worries made the economically robust Germans give in to the French. In the end, while Germany achieved the French devaluation it wanted, it also agreed to a 5.5 percent revaluation...
...April 1981, Roy Prosterman an export who helped the El Salvation government design its land reform system, cancelled a debate scheduled at the Kennedy School one day after part of an 1800 member match against U.S. involvement in El Salvador interrupted a K-School speech he was delivering...
Formidable obstacles faced Manley's economic plans. Primary among them was the need to make Jamaica's colonial economy--structured on the mining of bauxite for the aluminum industry and the export of sugar and bananas--more responsive to the needs of its own two million people. Manley sought to increase domestic production and foster popular participation in economic planning, thus wresting it from foreign control. He incurred the wrath of the business world by raising the taxes the foreign companies had to pay Jamaica, an attempt to bring more revenue to the island. This taxation and other measures. Manley...
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...