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...trade deficit warrants more attention than it received in your article "The Threatening Trade Gap" [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, July 9]. In 1980 U.S. exports to the developing countries were more than those to Europe and Japan combined, and throughout the 1970s the Third World accounted for the largest share of gains in U.S. exports and export-related jobs. Thus, while the U.S. and other industrialized countries are emerging from the recession, the U.S. export sector is not likely to achieve its previous high levels so long as growth prospects for the most dynamic source of new demand for U.S. goods...
...represent the nation. And Israel cheers 30 athletes and promises 1,000 tourists, though the country has yet to win a single medal. This will be Communist China's first major presence in the Olympics; they are bringing a contingent of 353. Egypt and Italy will be sending the largest delegations they have ever sent. Singapore wouldn't miss it; except for boycotting in 1980, that country has participated in every Olympics since...
...what distances there are to cover! Los Angeles County is 4,083 sq. mi., or 800 sq. mi. larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. If it were a state, it would be the eighth largest in population (7.9 million-behind Michigan, but ahead of New Jersey), not including California. The city measures 30 miles at its widest, 44 miles at its longest. It is roughly 465 sq. mi., and when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards...
...Shawcross maintains, the entire issue had been eclipsed in the world's short memory by newer and more fashionable tragedies. Though the author takes scrupulous pains to acknowledge the genuine accomplishments of the international agencies, he concludes that throughout one of the largest relief efforts in history nearly all the governments involved "used humanitarianism as a fig leaf for either the poverty or the ruthlessness of their politics." Founded on a basis of meticulous research, his book is, in the end, an elegy to good intentions ill directed and a cry of conscience on behalf...
...losers under this plan probably would be Continental's stockholders. The FDIC continues to honor its earlier promise that all the bank's depositors will be protected against losses, even those with accounts larger than the legal $100,000 coverage limit. Stockholders, though, could lose the largest share of some $2.2 billion in equity if the Government takes over. Stockholders have already taken a beating in the market. Since last September, Continental stock V, has fallen from 25¼ to 3½. Said one Chicago investment analyst last week: "This is as if you were in the Viet...