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...strike has had little effect on the nation's economy; expecting the inevitable, importers and exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required...
Ireland has long specialized in the export (sometimes mixed) of fine whisky and great writers. For every Swift, Synge or Yeats who stayed at home, there was a Wilde, Shaw or Beckett who packed off to escape artistic repression at the hands of what fellow Expatriate James Joyce called "a priestridden Godforsaken race...
Clearly opposed to even the slightest justifications used by the "defense contractors," Sampson only cites their rhetoric in order to ridicule it. There is little room to argue over the economics of expanding sales to reduce the development costs for the home country, and exports do keep the production lines continually operating. But Sampson only cites the age-old argument about the "deterrent" effect of weapons to toy with its absurdity. The weapons companies' claim of merely selling to those in need or able to afford an "honest price" becomes even more painfully comic when Sampson shows how former Defense...
...trucks to the South African government, police and army. The regime has required that 66 per cent, by weight, of all cars made in South Africa come from local plants. To meet this requirement, U.S. auto firms have established extensive production facilities in South Africa. Now, they even export parts from those plants to Europe and America...
...somewhat peppier Zhiguli (top speed: 76 m.p.h.), a Soviet-built version of a Fiat 124, sells for $7,850-not too much above the price of an average U.S. 1978 model, but three times the average annual Soviet wage. About a third of Soviet auto production is for export, largely in the form of a version of the Zhiguli named the Lada. Thus delivery delays for domestic Soviet auto buyers can run to a year or occasionally even three to four years...