Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economic need will probably force the North to seek some form of cooperation with the South. Hanoi now relies on China for its rice, and that is a position of dependence that the Vietnamese have struggled for centuries to avoid. It would be tempting for the Northerners to import from the rice bowl in the South...
...parcels suddenly turned up in Arab mailboxes last week, only a month after a similar wave of deadly letter bombs had been sent from Amsterdam to Israelis round the world. In Beirut, one package exploded in the central post office, injuring three workers; another blew up in an export-import firm operated by a Palestinian, wounding a secretary and an office boy. A letter bomb to a Beirut newspaper was disarmed. In Cairo, postal employees spotted and defused a package mailed from Belgrade. In Algiers, a package wounded the secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization office, to whom...
...Extension of commercial credit generally made available by each nation to its other trading partners. This provision would entitle Soviet trading monopolies to seek financing for their U.S. purchases from the Government-run U.S. Export-Import Bank. U.S. businessmen who make deals in Moscow can apply for similar services at the Soviet Foreign Trade Bank...
...office space, they must have already established their firm as an "active trading partner" with the Soviet Union, presumably by having engineered deals that were to Moscow's liking on business visits. The few that qualify can then set up a Moscow staff of only five Americans and import a single company...
ROBERT ROSS has sold $11 million worth of products from Communist countries in the U.S. since his first trip to Moscow in 1970. As head of East-Europe Import Export, Inc., based in Manhattan, he has another $100 million worth of contracts under discussion. Acting mostly as a buyer, Ross represents 65 American firms in Russia and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, he is sole sales agent in the U.S. for the Soviet auto and electronics industries and Rumanian auto and petroleum exports. This year he introduced a $3,195 Jeep-like Rumanian vehicle into the U.S. He is talking with executives...