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...dollar) has given Canadian goods a price advantage in world markets. Exports are surging while imports remain steady, and last year's trade surplus of $150 million is expected to rise to $400 million this year. Most pleasing to Canadians, whose world trade depends mainly on the sale of raw materials and farm products, including $147,400,000 in wheat to Red China last year, is the fact that exports of manufactured goods have almost doubled since 1956 and now account for 15% of foreign trade...
Specifically, he objected to the Alianza's taking credit for aid under U.S. Public Law 480, which allows the sale of surplus food for soft local currency, and for the operations of the Export-Import Bank, which has in fact been less active lately. He accused the U.S. Congress of lopping 40% from what he considered a Kennedy promise of $1 billion-worth of aid in Latin America in 1962-when all that Kennedy actually requested was $600 million. And he found a "lack of coordination among U.S. organizations designed to finance the Alianza, and lack of a central...
...Effective immediately on passage, any foreigner who makes a deal to buy a Canadian company must pay a prohibitive 30% "takeover" tax on the sale price. In the last year alone, four major Canadian concerns were gobbled up by foreign interests...
Irma La Douce is no animated French postcard; its sexiness is played for belly laughs, not snickers. By pruning the script of prurience, Wilder and Diamond have managed to treat the sale of sex with vulgar good humor. Irma has no moral, of course; yet as an essay on virtue v. venery, it is as uplifting as a graduation address-and ten times funnier...
...official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...