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...often as not, the tirades are aimed at the U.S. Fed up, the Reagan Administration has moved to distance itself from the world body. In the past year, the U.S. has threatened to slash its hefty contribution to the U.N.'s budget unless it gains more control over how the money is spent, has dropped out of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and has refused to submit to the jurisdiction of another U.N. offshoot, the International Court of Justice. Last week the White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this...
Gorbachev's importunings to the Europeans in Paris further muddy the picture. Rather than offer to trade Soviet missiles aimed at Europe for U.S. "Euromissiles" aimed at the Soviet Union, Gorbachev last week offered to negotiate separately with Britain and France. He suggested that the Kremlin might slash the number of weapons targeted at Europe in return for cuts in the British and French nuclear arsenals, which have not been counted in talks between the superpowers. As a sweetener, Gorbachev made a tantalizing but rather fuzzy and perhaps deceptive offer to reduce the number of SS-20s in range...
SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...
Congress nonetheless pressed ahead, though with growing misgivings, on a drive to keep out low-priced imports that are thought to kill off American jobs. In the Democrat-controlled House, the Ways and Means Committee approved for floor action a bill that would slash U.S. imports of textiles and clothing, primarily from East Asia, as much as 40%. In the Republican- controlled Senate, sponsors rewrote a companion bill to snare as many votes as possible. The new Senate version would curb imports of shoes in order to catch the votes of Senators outside Southern textile states, while the textile provisions...
...stampede of some kind, anyway. Lawmakers have introduced more than 200 bills that would restrict imports in one way or another, and the first is about to come up for action. It would slash U.S. imports of textiles and clothing by 25% to 40%; 346 Senators and Representatives of both parties have signed up as cosponsors. South Carolina Democrat Ernest Hollings, one of the drafters, will try this week to rush it to the floor of the Republican- controll ed Senate as a rider to an unrelated bill, with strong prospects of getting a vote. In the Democratic-controlled House...