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...curtail assaults on their history, Latin American governments have passed stiff new laws against smuggling, stepped up customs inspections and exerted pressure on other governments to cooperate in the fight against the thefts. The U.S., for its part, has made it illegal to import any pre-Columbian object without the approval of its country of origin, and customs officials have become more vigilant...
...This is the fourth country in which I have made a home, and definitely the last." Ali Daghighfekr, 30, comes from an Iranian family that owns the Middle East's largest manufacturer of home appliances. Uncertain of the future of private enterprise in Iran, he set up an import-export business in Los Angeles last year. Says he: "I don't think Americans really appreciate America. If I marry and have children, I think they will thank me for allowing them to be born American...
...Administration's case is that U.S. consumption of more goods from Germany and Japan puts a moral burden on those countries to stimulate growth at home. West Germany will not be easily sold by that argument and will contend that the U.S. import trend is only recent and largely technical. "It won't wash," scoffed a top Schmidt aide. "For both economic and psychological reasons, Washington must tighten the U.S. belt on energy." In the end, politics may help save the day. As host and European spokesman, Schmidt will be personally anxious to avoid a failure...
Carter talked about next week's economic summit and confessed that he went to Bonn feeling handicapped, with no energy legislation passed and Congress threatening to block any Administration import taxes on oil. He sounded his new tough note about such action. "For the Congress to take that kind of negative position, prohibiting me from exercising the prerogatives and authority Presidents have had in the past, would be a very unwise act. My guess is they will not do it, but even if they haven't, their intentions will be a factor...
...conservation, but the Senate has balked at the size ($12 billion a year by 1981) of the levy-one reason why the energy bill has been bottled up for nine months. Carter has warned that if the bill is not passed soon, he will put a $5-per-bbl. import fee on foreign oil, but the cantankerous Senate last week voted to restrict his power to do so. The House may not go along...