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...great deal of concern about the outright hostility in Washington that exists against Japan," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economist. "Americans don't seem to care about this, but it is paramount in Japan." Trade negotiators reached an agreement last week to allow Japanese universities and government agencies to import U.S. supercomputers. But the two sides have made little progress so far in related talks over satellites and lumber products...
...under heavy political pressures--intends to keep RU 486 out of circulation, for whatever purposes. When the FDA loosened restrictions on unapproved drugs for the personal use of desperate AIDS patients in 1988, the department signalled out RU 486 with an "import alert" barring it from any such consideration...
...undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention to the mullahs...
...become domestic GM's biggest challenge: the Japanese. GM Europe builds small cars and engines that generally match their Japanese counterparts in quality, performance and fuel efficiency. (Only in one area, productivity, is the company seriously lagging behind its Asian rivals.) Why, then, has North American GM failed to import more of Opel's technology and know-how? GM executives in Europe tend to shrug at the question and point to the occasional instance of cooperation. Most notable: the Pontiac LeMans, which is in effect an Opel Kadett built in South Korea by Daewoo and shipped...
...October 1966 State Decree No. 770 was issued, in effect prohibiting abortion except under extraordinary circumstances. At the same time, import of oral contraceptives and IUDs was discontinued, and a package of other measures such as birth premiums and reduced taxes for couples with children was introduced. Rumania's mother heroines, as they have been called, responded vigorously. In September 1967 births totaled 63,183, more than triple the number from the previous December. The total number of births in 1967 was nearly twice that in 1966. Newspapers reported instances of three new mothers sharing a single hospital...