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Despite these distractions, businessmen find tune for many formal talks and weighty pronouncements. At various closed-door working sessions this time, members debated policy with Federal Reserve Chairman William Miller, Budget Director James Mclntyre, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, Presidential Trade-and-Inflation Aide Robert Strauss, CIA Chief Stansfield Turner and Economist Alan Greenspan...
...Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments Chairman Mark Shepherd and accompanied by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and Assistant Secretary Frank A. Weil, arrived for a 15-day tour of Japan to put those oft-stated intentions to a test...
...trade as a policy tool has led to sharp combat within the Administration between those who favor it (led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) and those who are strongly opposed (led by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps). Carter seems to be leaning in some respects toward the Kreps side: he has now decreed that the U.S. should sell products to an unsavory customer if the customer could buy them somewhere else...
Concerned about the R. and D. retreat, President Carter has ordered a Cabinet-level task force headed by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps to give him some recommendations for turning it around by next June. One of the task force's main goals: to find ways to reduce the discouraging effects of Government regulation...
Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps has led the battle against Brzezinski, with support from both the State Department and the Treasury. This group argues that any trade shutoff will not soften Russia's stand on human rights and will hurt U.S. economic interests. American sales, it notes, make up only a small percentage of Soviet imports. Though U.S. goods are sometimes superior, Carter's move would hardly cripple the huge Soviet economy, and Moscow can always turn to other countries that are eager to do business. Said one top U.S. official in Washington: "It's a Greek tragedy...