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...Austrian government did not accuse the two men of an anti-Sadat plot. Instead, it charged them with "illegal import of war materials," staged a hasty trial in which one was found guilty and the other innocent, and prepared to expel them to Lebanon...
...real root of the problem is the country's overall economic crisis. With wages rising and exports falling, the country can hardly meet the payments on its $27 billion foreign debt to the West, much less pay for food imports. Agricultural production has also been reduced because Poland cannot afford to import parts for tractors and combines; last week 60,000 were idle...
...erudite and usually garrulous Spadolini, like Mitterrand, was outspoken only in assailing high U.S. interest rates, which he claimed had seriously jeopardized Italy's anti-inflation drive. The reticent Suzuki skillfully avoided drawing attention to himself-and thus escaped sharp criticism of his nation's selective, restrictive import policies and its aggressive overseas selling. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister MacEachen explained the reluctance of the conferees to publicly criticize Japan: "When you are extolling the virtues of free trade, it is hard to point a ringer at the people who have been so brilliantly successful...
Danforth's letter, which was cosigned by eleven other members of the Senate Finance Committee, hinted that Congress might again consider putting import quotas on leading Japanese exports...
Some American officials say that this deficit is partially caused by restrictive import barriers that make it hard to sell products other than wheat, rice, aluminum and other natural resources. Japanese officials, however, maintain that they no longer discourage foreign companies...