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...incident which particularly piqued Angolan merchants stemmed from a shortage of powdered milk, important in Angola because there are no pasteurizing plants in the main cities. When the merchants found powdered milk hard to come by, they applied to the Overseas Ministry from permits to import foreign-made powdered milk...
Some of these hurdles can, and no doubt will, be lowered or removed as a result of further trade talks; the Japanese seem to realize that they must liberalize their import practices if they are to avoid more protectionist retaliation against their own goods abroad. But even an immediate removal of all formal barriers would not necessarily open Japan wide to U.S. marketing men. The most formidable of the obstacles cannot be lowered by diplomatic negotiation. It is Japan's archaic and labyrinthine distribution system...
...becoming one of the first nations to do so. Since then, narcotics have been the target of no less than nine separate international agreements. The latest one, the U.N.'s 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, calls for what are essentially voluntary restraints on the cultivation, manufacture, import and export of opium and its derivatives...
...letter was politically as well as personally offensive to Boumedienne. Algeria contemplates selling an annual $120 million worth of gas to the U.S. and is seeking an investment loan from the Export-Import Bank. At the same time, Algeria is anxious to maintain its revolutionary image, especially among the black countries to the south, and has welcomed not only the Black Panthers but a score of other revolutionary groups, including the Committee for the Liberation of the Canary Islands. Boumedienne thus could not simply boot Cleaver out of the country without some diplomatic embarrassment...
...thing that attracts increasing numbers of U.S. educators to Open University is the fact that it is relatively cheap to operate: it costs about one-fourth as much as a conventional British university. Indeed, the new programs at California, Texas, Maryland and New Jersey universities will even import the same materials being used in England. Explains Rutgers Provost Kenneth Wheeler: "If we can use their texts and lectures and not have to develop our own, it would mean a savings of millions of dollars...