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...Tumlir, the chief economist for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), maintained that protectionism remains one of the most pressing problems facing the international economy. Tumlir pointed out that 48% of world trade is now hindered in some form or other and said that freer world commerce was the foundation for sustained growth. In recent weeks, however, trade frictions have been increasing. Angered by U.S. restrictions on specialty-steel imports, the European Community retaliated two weeks ago by slapping curbs on a variety of American-made products, including chemicals and sporting goods. The Common Market action, to take...
...Stanlinist Gulag pushed to its logical conclusion and extended to the world at large. This has not occurred even in Communist countries. Quite the contrary: although their regimes remain frozen in totalitarian molds, their reality has been persistently evolving toward more liberal forms. The world is certainly a freer place today that it was in 1948 when Orwell wrote his anti-utopian novel...
...Soviets have long accused the U.S. of violating the spirit of d�tente by encouraging Egypt to switch from Kremlin client to U.S. ally?for which there is no evidence?and by enacting the Jackson-Vanik amendment of 1974, which made a U.S.-Soviet trade agreement contingent on freer emigration of Jews from the U.S.S.R. Moscow regarded that as unwarranted interference in its internal affairs...
...Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand but personal tour of these and all the other Smithsonian collections, including such exotic arrays as the Freer Gallery's elegant Orientalia and the rich lode of artifacts in the Museum of African Art. It is sobering to realize that the treasures that gleam from these 470 pages are a mere sample of the national attic's contents...
...idea of the program is to bring the students out of a country where they have limited educational opportunities and bring them to a first-rate American university while they are exposed to a freer society and pick up important skills, "David Smock, director of the SAEP says...