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That is the ultimate import of Castro's words. The situation is the Middle East may be tragic, violent and marked by individual atrocities on both sides. But it is not genocide. If we define it as such, and begin to believe our own words, then we will tolerate ever larger crimes, crimes which might accurately be labeled "genocide," even as, on a smaller scale, we tolerate them...
Kreps proved to be a talented bureaucratic infighter, despite her soft-spoken manner. She persuaded the White House to transfer to Commerce some of the Treasury Department's import-regulating duties. She also caused Commerce to take a more active role in promoting international trade. In May she initialed the U.S. China trade agreement in Canton. But she was never allowed into Carter's inner circle of economic policymakers, whom she once dubbed "the boys at breakfast...
...Ramones gig: "A scalper," one fan tells another knowingly. The soundtrack is good--music by Eno and Nick Lowe side by side with Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren. (If you want to hear live Ramones recordings, though, don't buy this soundtrack album; get a double-album import called It's Alive, four uninterrupted sides of lobotomized thumping...
...suitable for cultivation. Most of this is farmed by huge agrarian combines that produce tomatoes, eggplants, chick peas, strawberries and asparagus for the export market rather than less profitable staples for domestic consumption. Mexico sells $1.1 billion worth of foodstuffs to the U.S. each year, but has to import 4.5 million tons of grain to feed its people...
Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government and a specialist in Latin American affairs, said yesterday Carter deserves credit for emphasizing that "nothing going on in Cuba is of sufficient import to affect SALT...