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...goes." Those opposed to further fast growth lost a big battle just last week when voters in all of the Keys, which stretch 100 miles into the gulf from Florida's southern tip, overwhelmingly approved a new $42 million water pipeline from the mainland that some warned would open the floodgates of growth...
Reported TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak from Washington: "The Carter crackdown reflected a fear that any policy dissonance would further prejudice U.S. interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf region at large. Despite Carter's open endorsement of the Bakhtiar regime last month, U.S. officials were quietly pleased by Khomeini's choice of Bazargan as transitional Prime Minister. He is viewed by Washington as a patient, conciliatory figure who can get the oilfields pumping again and possibly harness the disparate opposition forces as well as the nervous pro-Shah elements within the military leadership. State Department specialists who have...
Washington has no illusions that the days of Iran as a client state are finished. Bazargan and his colleagues, says one American official who has just returned from Iran, "are looking for indications of American support toward a more neutral posture of open trade relations but without military patronage...
Since last fall, new U.S. deals with China-to build hotels, open iron mines, sell planes, oil drilling equipment and even Coca-Cola-have been popping like firecrackers at a Chinese New Year celebration. U.S. exports to China leaped from $171.5 million in 1977 to $823.6 million last year, and forecasts of the 1985 volume range up to $6 billion...
That is only one of the surprises and difficulties facing U.S. companies trying to push through a new Open Door to China trade. Some other challenges: preparing reams of technical material for Chinese bureaucrats who will want to debate every minute specification of a widget; staying reasonably sober through Peking banquets that may include as many as ten bottoms-up toasts drunk in 110-proof mao tais; determining just how big the China market really is in the first place...