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...with a local INS crackdown on undocumented laborers from the nearby Mexican town of Ojinaga. The growers took out newspaper advertisements requesting 4,000 domestic agricultural workers at the minimum farm wage of $2.20 an hour. They got 300 replies. Finally the growers were allowed by the INS to import the help they needed ?from Ojinaga...
...public. Japan's aggressive MITI (Ministry of International Trade) and the big trading houses had arranged for the visitors more than 3,000 interviews with potential buyers, and a few sales had been prudently lined up ahead of time. When Mrs. Kreps criticized Japan's reluctance to import, her hosts smiled and politely applauded...
...Hume, claims he has invented a machine that packages liquids like yogurt and orange juice at one-third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont has already sold 20 of the devices at $150,000 each to the nationalized hospitals. Lind hoped to line up appointments with government decision makers who could...
...leading foe of the ERA, charging that the International Women's Year conference in Houston was dominated by "militant Marxists" and "lesbians." He claims that President Carter sold out to the Russions by cancelling B-1 Bomber production. He led an unsuccessful fight to lift the Rhodesian chrome import ban. His proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion was so strong that it basically outlawed...
...finished products. So rather than worrying about the LDCS' "minuscule" exports of such products, McNamara said, the richer countries would be wise to help the LDCS continue to earn the foreign currency that they need to buy the developed countries' goods. Citing a list of new import barriers erected by the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and other manufacturing nations against Third World shoes, textiles, TV sets and other products, McNamara warned that "excessive protectionism is not only unfair. It is self-defeating...