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...widely anticipated after the World Trade Organization last year decided that the E.U. was infringing international trade rules by giving subsidies to its sugar exporters that distort the world market. But the cuts announced by E.U. Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel were deeper than expected, and prompted a sour reaction from Europe's sugar industry, which accounts for 13% of world production. Shares in Britain's Tate & Lyle tumbled after it warned that profits could be reduced by more than $150 million over the next two years. Other losers are the least efficient E.U. sugar growers, mainly in Greece, Ireland, Italy...
...Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin lectured that "nothing should put in question the independence of the judiciary." For his part, the judge in question accused Sarkozy of "demagoguery," and the Superior Council of Magistrates filed a formal complaint with Chirac. UMP parliamentary deputy Jean-Michel Fourgous said the intense reaction shows that for Sarkozy, "the threat comes from Chirac's people, not the National Front." But it's with Chirac's people that Sarkozy governs. "He knows that his brand of economic liberalism isn't popular in France, so he's compensating with a dose of moral conservativism," says...
...Washington, the Reagan Administration hailed the proposed reforms as a "major milestone on the road away from apartheid." But public reaction inside South Africa was mixed. Business groups and other moderates cheered the news. The government's actions, said John Kane-Berman, director of the antiapartheid South African Institute of Race Relations, rank along with the legalization of black trade unions in 1979 as "the most important reform in South Africa since World War II." Many black activists, on the other hand, viewed the measure--welcome as it is--as too little, too late. "Apartheid cannot be reformed," says Patrick...
...Gorbachev who came to power in 1985 Pursuing the paramount impulse was a direct reaction to the Reagan of 1981-84. Andrei Gromyko, speaking for the gerontocrats of the Politburo, nominated the relatively youthful Gorbachev as the man who had a "nice smile" but "iron teeth." His comrades knew that Gorbachev would have to go up against the affable Great Communicator in the contest for the hearts and minds of the world. Because he was tough and might stay in office well into the next century, Gorbachev seemed the best choice to deal with all those doctrines and initiatives that...
...essential to understand the action-reaction dynamic and to take it into account in formulating arms-control and defense policies. We must understand that every action stimulates a reaction in an endless cycle. Already, the cost of our failure to do so has been the development of ridiculously large arsenals and missed opportunities to negotiate agreements to reduce them...