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Bush appointed former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett "drug czar" and accorded this post Cabinet status, but doesn't even allow Bennett to attend Cabinet meetings. He banned the import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...
Lastly, it has not gone unnoticed--at least by this observer--that Harvard has traditionally had an inordinate impact upon the practices of other institutions of American higher education. It therefore has inherited a moral reponsibility of national import with respect to the issue of faculty diversity. To some extent, this view is similar to that of those who have struggled so mightily for the Harvard Corporation to divest its stock in companies that are in South Africa. However, in the case of hiring a fair number of Black faculty, there cannot be an analogous counter-argument suggesting that...
Specifically, Japan was charged with restricting the import of U.S.-made supercomputers, satellites and lumber products. Under Super 301, Washington will negotiate with the targeted countries for removal of the barriers; if no progress is made, the law allows for retaliatory tariffs against some of the offenders' imports...
What's a little artificial fattening between friends? When the twelve-nation European Community banned the import of hormone-treated beef last January, claiming possible health hazards, American cattle ranchers were furious. They saw it as merely a protectionist maneuver to keep nearly $100 million in U.S. beef each year out of European shops. The U.S. Government retaliated by slapping 100% tariffs on a variety of E.C. exports worth roughly $100 million a year...
...because U.S. inspectors refused to certify that it was in fact untreated. In turn, the U.S. tariffs on E.C. goods will be scaled back. Trade Representative Carla Hills said that while the interim agreement was a positive step, the U.S. still feels that the E.C.'s import ban is "an unjustifiable restriction on trade...