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On the other hand, the Japanese government had trade news of a different sort for U.S. auto manufacturers. For the seventh consecutive year Tokyo announced that it would continue a program of voluntary export quotas on cars destined for the U.S. This year's ceiling of 2.3 million vehicles remained...
Warding off such a flare-up is also, paradoxically enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs...
But loot alone could not have caused such family tangles. The problem was that the Gettys were not a family. J. Paul's five marriages produced five sons. Only two, Jean Paul Jr. and Gordon Peter, were full brothers. How much one can blame a father for the fate of...
...The flare-up was in response to a monologue by Le Duc Tho, 73, who sat opposite Kissinger during the Paris peace talks in the early 1970s and still serves in Viet Nam's Politburo. Smiling like a kindly uncle but persistently ducking the questions of Nightline's Ted Koppel...
If Rajiv's first challenge was the aftershock of his mother's murder, the second was the need to avoid a sudden flare-up between India and Pakistan. In recent weeks Mrs. Gandhi had said repeatedly that she feared an attack by Pakistan, supplied with U.S. arms. She also accused...