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After the lackluster Montreal performance, many countries may be tempted to bypass GATT and negotiate more bilateral or regional pacts with only a few trading partners. Still, no one is quite ready to abandon GATT. Says Bill Martin, chief economist of Phillips & Drew, a leading London brokerage firm: "There's not great hope that GATT can achieve much in the way of further trade liberalization. But GATT is a very important bulwark against galloping protectionism." An important bulwark, but an increasingly leaky...
Much of Europe joined in the snickering last week after Papandreou flaunted his ample young mistress at a European Community summit meeting for which he was host on the Greek island of Rhodes. Photos of the enraptured and grandfatherly Prime Minister with a miniskirted Liani were splashed from London to Istanbul, where the Turkish daily Hurriyet called Papandreou an "international laughingstock...
...London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro, Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...bomb it. That seems to be the philosophy of a shadowy group of Welsh nationalists who exploded fire bombs in five central London real estate offices last weekend. They call themselves the Sons of Glendower, taking their name from Owen Glendower, leader of a 15th century Welsh rebellion against the English, and are thought by the authorities to number little more than half a dozen...
Although nobody has yet been killed or seriously injured, police worry about the increasing sophistication of the incendiary devices being used. Warned Scotland Yard spokesman Neil Schofield last week: "If they've decided to step up the campaign in London, it's something we have to take very seriously...