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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be narrowed if foreign countries were to dismantle barriers to trade, such as quotas and stringent customs regulations, which effectively block sales of American products. The Administration has tried, not too successfully, to combat these practices through trade negotiations. But last week the U.S. could claim that real progress had been made. After a year of often heated talks about the semiconductor trade, Japan finally agreed to boost prices of the computer chips it sells in the U.S. The Commerce Department had charged that Japan was "dumping" chips at money-losing prices to gain market share. Japan also promised...
While the exploration of the legendary Titanic captured the imagination of the world, it was but one of many undersea forays now in progress. Even as J.J. roamed the corridors of the great ship, diving teams from Cape Cod, Mass., to the South Seas, wearing scuba tanks, masks and flippers, were peering at decaying wrecks on the sea floor. At depths ranging from dozens to hundreds of feet, they probed and photographed the remnants of rotting hulls and carefully marked the location of scattered debris like cannonballs, silver bars or shattered pottery. Returning to the surface, they often brought with...
Redman said Shultz and Shevardnadze are expected to "review progress achieved in areas addressed by President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev in their November 1985 meeting and discuss what additional preparations may be needed for a summit meeting between the two leaders later this year...
...reform in South Africa and endanger America's strategic interests. "Victims of an economic boycott of South Africa would be the very people we seek to help," he said. "We need not a Western withdrawal but deeper involvement by the Western business community, as agents of change and progress and growth...
...squabble comes at a time when the U.S. tuna fleet has made substantial progress in reducing dolphin deaths. Tuna fishermen say that between 98% and 99% of the animals captured in nets are released unharmed, and the tuna-boat association has instituted the "Golden Porpoise Award" for the skipper with the fewest dolphin kills in a season...