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...TRADE. Humphrey advocates reducing such nontariff barriers as quotas and import taxes, while protecting domestic industries against "unfair dumping" by foreign producers. Both men are fundamentally free traders, but Nixon goes along with "temporary" protection for such hard-pressed industries as steel and textile. He blames domestic inflation for the nation's shrinking trade surplus...
...burglar movie has 999 lives. And for good reason: the suspense of the well-planned caper, the guaranteed palm-sweating factor in window-ledge gymnastics, the romantic appeal of the Lone Wolf against Society. He Who Rides a Tiger is a low-budget British import that delivers all these with a handsome bonus as well-some real characters worth caring about...
...that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...
...CARATS, a French import directed by Abe Burrows. Middle-aged woman loves young man; her teen-age daughter loves "older...
...than their foreign competitors, U.S. automakers enjoy a far greater unit profit on bigger, jazzier cars than they could hope to on European-style ones. In order to make a go of it with low-priced cars, they must be certain that the volume is there. The upswing in import sales, which will account for a $2 billion chunk of business this year, has convinced them that...