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There are some signs, though, that tough behind-the-scenes talk by officials of the Carter Administration is starting to bring change. At American urging, Tokyo this month dispatched a 91-man delegation of corporate and government officials to tour the U.S., actively seeking, and signing orders for, more imports. Last week the mission fanned out from San Francisco to a score of cities to talk up a new liberalism in trade. In a flight of wish-it-were-true hyperbole, Delegation Chief Yoshizo Ikeda, president of Mitsui, the giant trading company, told a gathering in Atlanta that his country...
Even the most libertarian governments, moreover, meddle with the marketplace, if only by regulating the money supply, setting import duties and granting tax advantages to selected economic sectors. But unlike the socialist, who sees the state as the main engine
...charter of Tanzanian socialism is the Arusha Declaration of 1967. Under its provisions, all major industries, banks, insurance companies, wholesale firms and import-export concerns were nationalized. The most radical measure was the resettlement of millions of peasants into ujamaa ("familyhood," in Swahili) villages, which in principle are supposed to resemble Luhanga. Initially, migration to these communities was voluntary, but only 2 million responded. Then, in 1973, Nyerere's party ordered everyone in the countryside to the villages. Army units loaded peasants into trucks. Those who balked saw their huts bulldozed or ignited. Scores, perhaps hundreds, died. Some...
Although Nyerere's leadership code still keeps most top officials honest, below them, says a Tanzanian, "corruption has become institutionalized." Explains a resident of Dar es Salaam: "You can't get anything done without paying - whether a permit for a plot of land or an import license. I even have to bribe to get my cess pool emptied...
Maybe-but there are serious obstacles. Though President Carter's national energy plan calls importation of LNG an "important supply option," and the Department of Energy has been approving import projects, officials have serious doubts about the strategic wisdom of allowing too many American consumers to become dependent on the stuff, lest LNG be included in another oil embargo. They are hardly encouraged by the fact that the principal U.S. supplier will be Algeria, one of the most hawkish of the OPEC countries and a nation ruled by a left-wing government that is anything but an ally...