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...letter to U.S. Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss carried the strident ring of an ultimatum. Signed by Wilhelm Haferkamp, the German vice president of the European Community, and approved in advance by the Foreign Ministers of the nine member nations, it brusquely warned Washington that the Nine would retaliate if the U.S. began collecting extra import duties on a wide variety of their products. It also intimated that the Community would walk out of the three-year-old Tokyo Round trade talks, thus scuttling any possibility for their successful conclusion. What could follow, Haferkamp wrote, would be "a trade...
Aware of the peril, Robert Strauss last month huddled in Washington with congressional leaders in an effort to get an interim bill that would delay the duties. To his dismay, he found the mood on Capitol Hill running so strong against freer trade that he feared the bill would be either killed or encrusted with various protectionist amendments. He reported this to the Europeans and received the rocket from Haferkamp...
...great knowledge." These words were used by Jimmy Carter last month to describe Robert Griffin, who had been fired in July as second in command of the scandal-ridden General Services Administration and given a $50,000-a-year consolation prize as assistant to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss. Griffin, the President said, had not been tainted by the widespread corruption that investigators have unearthed at the GSA, which spends $5 billion a year to provide federal bureaucrats with office space, supplies and housekeeping services. The cause for Griffin's dismissal was said to be only a personality conflict...
...Carter and his economic advisers are under no illusion that they can claim any credit. Quite the contrary: consumer prices for the year are likely to rise 8% or even more, and the Administration is feeling public fury. As S. Lee Kling, chief deputy to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss, told fellow policymakers on returning from a trip, "You guys wouldn't believe what's happening out there. They're barely polite to me in St. Louis. They're throwing eggs at me in Atlanta. People are really riled...
...textile men believe that the great denim shakeout has now "bottomed out" and that better days are ahead. But the market is no longer growing by 17% to 18% a year, as it was in the mid-1970s, and has slowed to a 2% to 3% pace. Levi Strauss, the biggest U.S. blue jeans maker, showed a sales drop in its Jeans-wear Division in the second quarter, to $138 million from $173 million last year...