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...variety." The woman who claimed to have been called never appeared at any hearing. Neither Gerald nor his parents were advised of any right to counsel or of his right to keep silent. They had little or no advance notice of the charges against him. No transcript was kept of the proceedings, and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get any sort of review. The offense was punishable by a maximum of two months and $50 if Gerald had been an adult. Since he was only 15, however, he could be and was committed...
Kyung (dubbed Cookie by Galamian) is one of seven musical children of an importer who now lives in Seattle. She started on piano at four, but switched to violin two years later because "I kept going to sleep at the keyboard" She left Seoul for Juilliard at twelve, knowing no English. As composed and lovely as a porcelain doll, she "never felt more comfortable" than in the competition, was calm enough to nap during the two-hour wait for the jury's decision...
From Washington, President Johnson kept track of each twist and turn in the haggling through coded cables and scrambler telephone calls, personally ordered the U.S. stand on each sensitive deal. The main thrust of those decisions-forwarded to Geneva through the White House Kennedy Round liaison staff with the secret code name "the potatoes group"-was to swap U.S. industrial concessions for lower European barriers to U.S. farm exports...
...textiles, the U.S. granted only 20% reductions, but of the 5,700 dutiable items on the nation's present tariff schedules, only 211 were excluded entirely from the negotiations (among them: petroleum, sheet glass, zinc, lead, safety pins, umbrella frames, briar pipes and baseball gloves). The Common Market kept such items as heavy commercial vehicles and computers (except for those using punch cards) out of the dickering. Jean Rey, the Belgian chief negotiator for the Common Market, called his group "extremely satisfied" with the outcome-a reaction echoed by most governments. Secretary of State Dean Rusk called the results...
Secret Details. Negotiators reached an antidumping agreement to prevent international sales of goods below cost, but its details (like those on most specific tariff cuts) were temporarily kept secret. However disturbing-and confusing-that secrecy is to businessmen, the GATT delegates consider it essential to enable them to codify the Byzantine complexities of their agreements in time for governments to sign them by June 30, when President Johnson's authority to cut tariffs expires...