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...President last week reaffirmed his opposition to the bill. Said he: "This protectionist legislation would impose tremendous costs on consumers . . . and U.S. business. It must not become law." He met with 35 Congressmen to ask for support to sustain his veto. One danger of such a bill is that American import restrictions would provoke its trading partners to take similar actions, hurting U.S. exports. The Administration is not ignoring the industry, however. Last week the U.S. Government agreed to renew for five years an important international pact that governs trade in textiles. The so- called Multi-Fiber Agreement expands import...
...trend toward banning textiles, the Administration shot its South Africa policy in the foot again last week by announcing that it had reached an agreement with Pretoria to increase U.S. imports of South African textiles by 4% a year. The unfortunate timing managed to outrage the advocates of protectionist legislation in the depressed U.S. textile industry even as it angered supporters of sanctions. The mild-mannered Lugar called the textile deal "hard to believe." Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray termed it "lunacy." Protested Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick, of textile-producing South Carolina: "We're wrapping ourselves in % the misery of that...
Kissinger contended that the free-trading system is in crisis, and could be in the throes of rapid evolution that could lead to a starkly protectionist world of competing regional power blocs, including Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific region under the leadership of Japan. In response, Kissinger observed, the U.S. may be forced to re-examine the free-trade ideals that it has championed since World...
...campaign speeches the Prime Minister promised to "make it possible for Japan to get set for the upcoming 21st century" by making good relations with his trading partners his No. 1 foreign policy goal. He has acknowledged that Japan's $61.6 billion trade surplus has sparked a worldwide protectionist outcry. He has said repeatedly that the Japanese must try to open Japan's normally inaccessible markets to world goods, though real progress has been slow. "Making Japan more open to the rest of the international community," says a government- commissioned blueprint for economic reform, "is in Japan's own national...
...that serves as the offices of Women Against Pornography. "Women actually succeeded in convincing a national governmental body of a truth that women have long known: pornography harms women and children." Hunter tapped a different strand of feminist thinking: women should seek liberation, not special protection from the state. "Protectionist attitudes," she said, "ultimately hurt women." Friedan once again declared that the war against porn is a woeful waste of energies needed on the economic and legal fronts. Said she: "As repulsive as pornography can be, the obsession with it is a dangerous diversion for the women's movement...