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Criticizing the call for import restrictions, Yamani warned that such pressures could "lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...
Criticizing the call for import restrictions, Yamani warned that such pressures could "lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...
...Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
...often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit, in 1903, "we can get along without him." Despite the opposition of U.S. drug companies, the government began to crack...
Yamani criticized calls for import restrictions on oil saying they "can lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...