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...oceangoing lines would seem now to be the most incautious of endeavors. Overcapacity and underpricing, especially by the Soviet Union, have driven a lot of companies to desperation. Pacific Far East Line has sheltered under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws. Farrell Lines has acquired American Export Lines, whose parent company was just discharged from Chapter...
...wrap together the sale of 15 ultrasophisticated F-15 fighter-bombers to Israel with the delivery of four times that number of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, and 50 of the less advanced but also deadly F-5E Tiger II jets to Egypt. By bundling them in a single export package. Carter has made it exceedingly difficult for Congress to block the Arab sales without preventing the Israeli delivery as well. This has infuriated many Jews, who see the arrangement as gravely jeopardizing Israeli security...
...What that program should be is a legitimate subject for urgent national debate; the very fact of a debate would reassure foreigners that the U.S. is not content just to hope that inflation will go away. Further, Carter might appoint a task force to study ways of increasing U.S. exports, and thus shaving the trade deficit, without trusting to a sinking dollar to do the job. Another useful step would be to ditch the provision of Carter's tax "reform" plan that calls in effect for higher levies on export profits...
...discourage American foreign investment in South Africa," and to work within the apartheid system to bring about changes in racial policies. It urges the denial of tax credits to U.S. firms in South Africa not actively striving to improve the lot of its non-white workers, the end of export-import bank guarantees of U.S. bank loans to the South African government, and the curtailment of Commerce Department activities directly or indirectly helping American firms choosing to operate in South Africa...
Sibling rivalry between spiritual leaders? Well yes, between the Maharaj Ji, a.k.a. Perfect Master, and his eldest brother, Shri Satyapal Ji (Truth Incarnate). In India they are often regarded as export gurus aimed at the Western market, but in the U.S. the baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization...