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...that weapon should be used sparingly. Protectionism encourages U.S. companies to remain inefficient and drives up prices to consumers. The flap about fair trade obscures an inescapable fact: the fault for our industrial woes lies not with our trading partners but in ourselves. If every trade barrier on earth magically disappeared, the U.S. deficit would probably decline no more than 20%. The primary responsibility for the trade deficit rests both with a profligate Government whose tax and spending policies have encouraged overconsumption and with much of U.S. industry, which grew fat and complacent during its halcyon days in the 1950s...
...diplomatic flap: the Foreign Office quickly announced the expulsion of Medina Perez and the Cuban Ambassador, Oscar Fernandez Mell. Officials said those fired on were performing routine surveillance...
...what lies behind the pledge flap is something quite important, something which cannot simply be covered over and tucked away as a trivial low point in Campaign...
THIS context is vital to understanding the current pledge flap. George Bush--or more likely his advisor, Roger Ailes--is not simply capitalizing on a cheap means of portraying Dukakis as a flaming liberal. He is tugging on the strings of xenophobia which run from coast to coast...
Since so much that Bush and Dukakis do and say is prepackaged and programmed, the press naturally emphasizes the rare unscripted moments, whatever their lasting significance. There was a brief and meaningless flap after an overexuberant Bush bizarrely ad-libbed to the American Legion convention that Sept. 7 (and not Dec. 7) was the 47th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The news last Tuesday night featured both candidates fending off hecklers: militant right-to-lifers who shouted Dukakis down in suburban Chicago and outspoken hardhats who jeered Bush in Portland, Ore. There was little evidence that either group was representative...