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...from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports, but it still tightly limits the inflow of such items as tobacco, rice, wheat and computers...
With this inflow of capital, OYAK investments have spread throughout the Turkish economy. The fund owns controlling interests in Turkish Automotive Industry, a company that assembles International Harvester trucks and tractors; MAT, a truck and tractor sales firm; the OYAK Insurance Co.; Tukas, a food canning firm; and a $3,000,000 cement plant. OYAK also holds 20% of the $50 million Petkim Petrochemical plant, scheduled to begin operations within three years, 8% of state-owned Turkish Petroleum and 7% of a $5.6 million tire factory owned mostly by Goodyear. Civilians operate the companies, but many key posts are held...
...their budgets and antagonized the rank and file of the Social Democratic Party, who have long suspected Schiller of being too probusiness in his thinking. More important, he clashed with Brandt on the question of monetary policy; when other European countries began imposing financial controls to halt the inflow of unwanted, inflation-breeding dollars, Schiller refused to erect any sort of barrier against the free flow of capital into West Germany. Two weeks ago, at a showdown Cabinet session, Brandt sided with German Central Bank President Karl Klasen, who proposed a set of mild-and so far ineffectual-controls...
Labor Push. Even these costs pale in comparison with what consumers would face if Congress were to pass the Hartke-Burke bill. On nearly all imports that measure would provide for quotas aimed at rolling back the inflow of foreign goods to 1965-69 levels. Bergsten warns that the resulting price rises might well be great enough to defeat the Administration's Phase II policy, and might necessitate stricter controls...
...volatile and hard-pressed state of West Bengal, where the bulk of the refugees have fled; the presence on Indian soil of large numbers of guerrillas who could become a militant force stirring up trouble among India's own dissatisfied masses; and finally, the prospect of a continued inflow of refugees so long as the civil war continues...