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Auto company executives have stopped short of lobbying for import restrictions against Japan. Just as well. President Carter at his news conference last week pointed a wagging finger at the industry and said he had urged Detroit automakers to build smaller cars three years ago. He said they had replied that American consumers wanted big ones. The President firmly ruled out restrictions on Japanese imports, saying that controls would force consumers to buy the inefficient gas guzzlers they do not want. Both Carter and industry officials would like the Japanese to construct assembly plants here, and last week Nissan Motor...
Japan must import 99.7% of its oil, as well as almost all the coal, iron ore and other raw materials needed to keep its production lines humming. To soften the blow of rising commodities prices, the triumvirate of banking, business and government has pursued a subtly effective policy of slowing the growth of resource-intensive industries such as steel and petrochemicals, and channeling more of the nation's capital into "knowledge-intensive" industries such as microelectronics and computers. That is one reason why, throughout most of the energy-dazed 1970s, Japan has held inflation relatively low and employment high...
...import of these facts is that (a) the incidents last week created a serious danger of violence, and (b) the underlying problem of tensions between gay people and others may be a severe and deep-rooted one. I commend The Crimson for avoiding the sensationalism that could only aggravate existing tensions. By omitting crucial facts, however, The Crimson gives a misleading impression that the problem has been settled. Sad to say, it is unlikely that the issues raised by the events of last weekend will be resolved by the measure, however unprecedented, of one man's public apology...
...hook to brandish in publisher's blurbs. Though sometimes obscured by the fluff, Alitto's tale of one man does emerge in the end. It is a tale worth telling, and as Alitto illuminates how Liang faced universal problems, he does, almost in spite of himself, uncover the universal import of the life of Liang Shu-ming...
...final, necessary thrust is a series of conservation moves, including standby rationing. Without rationing, Bradshaw fears the U.S will face the hard choice of either shortages or import surges in the early 1980s. Domestic reserves are declining, and while there is potential for vast discovery deep below the hostile, ice-choked waters of the Beaufort Sea off Alaska and Canada that will take years to prove and develop. So will solar power, though Bradshaw's firm is spending millions experimenting with it, and "our company will play any wild card in solar. But when we think of alternatives...