Word: repeals
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...manufacturers to build plants and sell products in Japan. In the tough bargaining that lies ahead, there is equal opportunity for the U.S. to persuade the Europeans to eliminate some of their stiff trade restrictions by offering in return to remove some of its own. Among the candidates for repeal that are most unpopular with trading partners of the U.S. are the so-called "Ship America" act and the many similar expressions of the "Buy American" mentality...
...part of the President's economic package went slamming into contradiction with a decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. By seeking repeal of the 7% excise tax on automobiles and by imposing a new 10% surcharge on foreign imports, Nixon means to stimulate the American automobile industry and its suppliers: steel, glass and the rest. The policy implies the addition of still more American cars to a bumper-to-bumper society...
...income tax on the last frenzied night of the session. To top it off, Republican Governor Thomas Meskill, who opposed such a tax, allowed it to become law. The infuriated citizens of Connecticut staged a spontaneous revolt; they swamped both Governor and legislators with letters, telegrams and petitions demanding repeal of the tax. The state's politicians took alarm and last week convened a special session of the legislature to reconsider...
...withdrawal of U.S. military support. It has a modern and powerful armed force, and Secretary of State William Rogers has assured the Nationalists that the U.S. will stand by its commitments to defend the island against any mainland attack. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to repeal a 1955 congressional resolution that had redundantly empowered the President to use all means to defend Taiwan against attack. The vote on the repeal in no way abrogated the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. But Taipei is worried about the symbolic implications of any pullout of American forces stationed on Taiwan...
Though a majority of Ireland's Catholics probably still support the church's strictures against birth control, there has been growing agitation recently to repeal or modify the law. To focus attention on the controversy, the women entrained for Belfast, where contraceptives are legal, and fanned out through the downtown shopping area to make their purchases. Back in Dublin's Connolly Station a squad of uncomfortable-looking customs men, forewarned, awaited their return. Also on hand were 150 Lib supporters waving placards reading: WOMEN ARE BABY MACHINES! and I'M ON THE PILL-ARREST...