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...about the same terms last August, thus avoiding all the tensing trade upsets and tough talk of the intervening months. To get what they did two weeks ago, Nixon and Connally had to agree to put off some demands for the reduction of foreign tariffs and quotas that restrict the sales of U.S. goods abroad. By agreeing to devalue the dollar before he won basic concessions on trade-aside from short-term liberalization by the Europeans for the benefit of vote-heavy U.S. farmers -Nixon gave up an important bargaining chip. The Administration's strategy now appears...
...already reached a record high. The Mills plan would pass along roughly the same amounts of money; under it, for five years state governments would get $1.8 billion annually from federal revenues, and local governments $3.5 billion. But Mills rejected the Administration's no-strings approach: he would restrict use of the money to high-priority programs, among them public health, transportation and environment. Why did Mills produce a revenue-sharing plan now? Partly, it seems, to please Democrats in state and local government and thus enhance his possible presidential candidacy next year, or at least his kingmaking clout...
...concludes, "as long as they don't prevent the opportunity to locate where the jobs are. I don't think anyone knows what patterns are going to develop when American citizens all enjoy mobility and diversity of choice. But I'm convinced we can't restrict black Americans, or brown, or yellow or any other kind for that matter, to the central cities and not permit them that fundamental opportunity...
...following just such a policy in foreign trade, attempting to appease protectionists by placing curbs on the imports about which they howl loudest. Last month the Administration bludgeoned Japan into setting "voluntary" quotas on shipments of textiles. Now it is trying to persuade Italy, Spain and Japan to similarly restrict sales of shoes to the U.S. These moves expand a record that includes such earlier items as the "temporary" 10% surcharge that Nixon slapped on many imports and the proposal to grant tax credits to buyers of American-made, but not foreign-manufactured, industrial machinery...
...Further...it tends to reduce the opportunities for inter-collegiate competition, to restrict those opportunities to only the most highly skilled athletes, and to increase the intensity of recruiting...