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...actual percentage of truly liberal trade among European countries and between them and the rest of the world has declined. After eliminating the products for which commerce is restricted, not much is left for free trade. The export or import of most agricultural products, textiles, synthetic fibers, clothing, shoes, steel and automobiles are now limited in some way. And restraints in one country beget restraints in another. No sooner had Washington pressured the Japanese into limiting the number of cars shipped to the U.S. than the Europeans, who already control their auto imports from Japan, were demanding still tougher restraints...
...credibility of Western governments that sometimes quietly encourage the formation of such cartels. Says Brittan: "What kind of picture do we present to the Soviet Union when we preach about competition while at the same time our great industries are unable to stand up to the impact of the import of sandals from Korea...
...have found evidence that lodge members had helped Sindona skip bail in New York in 1979 by faking his kidnaping and hiding him near Palermo. Another alleged lodge brother was the former commander of Italy's Finance Police, General Rafaele Giudice, who has been implicated in an oil-import scandal involving as much as $2.2 billion in tax frauds...
...prospects for oil price restraint were further brightened during the week by the release of an unexpectedly optimistic Central Intelligence Agency assessment of Soviet oil production potential through the 1980s. Four years ago, the agency had predicted that growing Soviet need for oil would force that country to import as much as 3.5 million bbl. daily from non-Communist suppliers by the mid-1980s, thus placing grave new strains on the world petroleum market. But last week the agency contradicted its original assessment of Soviet production capacity and revised the estimates upward, suggesting that the Soviet Union will remain self...
...investigate, and Simon Regan was promising his full cooperation. Said the Prince's solicitor, Matthew Farrer: "We are quite satisfied that the telephone conversations of which this purports to be a transcript did not take place." That afternoon, British Secretary of Trade John Biffen banned the import of the offending issue. By Friday night, Charles and Diana had seen all of Die Aktuelle's transcripts. Their verdict: all were fake...