Word: freer
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...NATION), and demanded that it be flown to Havana. The men who tried to seize Castro's C4& were anti-Castro Cubans, pointing up a growing embarrassment for Communists from East Germany to the Red Chinese border at Hong Kong: the widening river of desperate refugees fleeing to freer lands. Middle-class Cubans still come out aboard the twice-daily Pan Am flights to Miami. But now the humildes, the humble ones, la-'borers, rural peasants, fishermen, the very people Castro pretends to champion, have joined the exodus. They flee however they...
...found your description of South Viet Nam and Diem [Aug. 4] informative. It sheds, however, very little light on something that greatly troubles me. As of today, how much freer are the people of South Viet Nam under Diem's undemocratic rule than their neighbors in North Viet Nam ? I would like to raise the same question about North and South Korea. How successful can TIME or anybody else be in simply making the word "free" a synonym for non-Communism...
Paradoxically, the attack on freer trade comes at a time when protectionist sentiment in the business community seems to be declining. Dun's Review, querying 260 corporation presidents, reported that nearly 60% of them firmly oppose tariffs. But protectionists wield increasing political influence. Southern Congressmen who used to be major advocates of free trade have become increasingly protectionist. The cause: the once agrarian South is now more interested in building a tariff shelter over its burgeoning industries than in finding overseas markets for its cotton...
Petersen favors a shift in U.S. emphasis from case-by-case tariff reductions to multilateral deals, through which whole groups of nations (in particular, the six-nation European Common Market) would agree to freer trade. Further, he urges that all industrialized nations jointly lower their tariffs to permit a greater flow of imports from developing nations. The question is whether the Administration can sell such a policy to Congress and to U.S. allies-or if it can shift to any new policy without losing much that has been won in getting reciprocal trade extensions through successive Congresses...
LABOR: One of labor's most persistent needlers, Goldwater (whose own store is unorganized) insists that he favors stronger unions-but freer ones. He is in favor of right-to-work laws, has proposed revisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, e.g., toughening restrictions on secondary boycotts, limitations on organizational picketing. He would like a federal prohibition against union spending for political purposes, but sees nothing wrong with business firms that lobby for laws they like...