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...words of one New York shipping executive, by threatening antitrust action against the American members. Since 1916, U.S. members of shipping conferences have been exempt from antitrust laws, but Justice is making noises about ending that freedom in line with President Carter's deregulation policy. A U.S. pullout from the conferences would scarcely tempt the Soviets to join...
...League of Nations). Although the I.L.O. has been successful in monitoring and improving labor conditions worldwide, it also has become a forum for Third World and Communist attacks against U.S. Middle East policy and especially against Israel. Both the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce favored the pullout-the first American withdrawal from a U.N. agency. The action will wipe out U.S. financial support of the I.L.O., which amounts to about a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget...
...United in March, and spiraled up until last week United was offering $58.50 and McDermott $62.50. At that point, United Chairman Harry Gray, a shrewd takeover dealer, decided "it wasn't in the interest of our shareholders to pay any higher fare for the bus ride." His pullout left the little-known McDermott (it makes offshore drilling rigs) the winner of the takeover battle of the year...
...topics of defense and "neutrality" of the zone that American negotiators have scored their most notable breakthrough. Despite cries of Panamanian radicals for a total American pullout, the treaty calls for a gradual military reduction. The number of U.S. troops, now 9,000, presumably would decline and the 14 U.S. military bases would be reduced to four or five by the year 2000. At that time, the U.S. would have to pull out the last of its troops-or negotiate yet another treaty...
...last week, Major General John K. Singlaub, 55, flatly declared that Jimmy Carter's proposed withdrawal of the 31,700 U.S. ground troops in South Korea over a four- or five-year period "will lead to war." Singlaub, third-ranking U.S. general in South Korea, insisted that the pullout would encourage North Korea to launch a second invasion...