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...naked power enough? Before his banning, Donald Woods answered no, in these words about the Afrikaans mentality: "Like the Kremlin, they think the enemy is words. But the enemy is thoughts. You can't legislate against thoughts. You can't detain them, or ban them, or restrict them, and that is why the present rulers of South Africa cannot survive. The thoughts of many are against them, and ultimately they themselves...
...Carter last week dropped in on steel executives meeting with his aides in the White House and gave them a far different message: international trade laws will be enforced. That pledge, mild as it might seem, came a few days after European and Japanese steelmakers had informally offered to restrict exports to the U.S., and it gave American steelmen some assurance that one of the nation's basic industries might get a little relief...
...recommend to Carter a so-called orderly marketing agreement, under which the Administration in effect would negotiate with other countries quotas on foreign steel to be shipped into the U.S. An OMA has been much talked about as a temporary balm for steel; similar agreements already restrict imports of shoes and color-television sets. The United Steelworkers of America is for a steel OMA, but the executives who met with Carter and Strauss last week declined to press for one. The steelmen are awaiting a report from an Administration task force, headed by Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, on ways...
...might stop progress in the talks, and a U.S. Treasury official adds, "If we erect another trade barrier, the whole future of free trade as we know it is in jeopardy." If the Geneva talks fail, it is easy to foresee a truly vicious circle: protectionist moves further restrict the growth of global trade, keeping expansion of the world economy slow and unemployment in industrial nations high, provoking still more protectionist fervor...
...Bakke case," he continued, "has both stimulated the negative view of affirmative action and, if Mr. Bakke's effort is successful, stands to set back the legal tools for enforcing civil rights laws. That is, the Bakke case helps to create the political climate that makes legislation to restrict civil rights palatable...