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Bilbeisi's smuggling scheme, undetected by U.S. authorities, began with bribes to coffee growers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to obtain beans not subject to tariff agreements. The coffee, available at bargain rates, was ostensibly for domestic consumption or export to nontariff nations. To move the contraband through Central America, Bilbeisi's agents, financed by B.C.C.I. letters of credit, paid bribes to truckers, checkpoint officials and port officials. The coffee was marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before...
Both the President and Congress are taking up residence in false premises. Bush should not expect the totalitarians who run China to change their behavior at home and abroad simply to keep U.S. tariff rates low. Says Zhu Qizhen, the Chinese ambassador in Washington: "We are not going to beg the U.S. to extend MFN." Congress would be equally naive to think cutting off MFN will force China to reverse its economic and security policies. Such a public loss of face would be intolerable to Beijing...
Under U.S. law, Bush may now authorize tariff and credit concessions. The White House has been noncommittal, on that subject and on the possibility of Gorbachev's attending the G-7 summit. Among the other G-7 members, Germany is strongly in favor of inviting Gorbachev and of doing anything else that might prop up the Kremlin leader; it trusts Gorbachev far more than any potential successor to carry through the barely begun pullout of 380,000 Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany. But the summit hosts in Britain are divided. Prime Minister John Major has spoken...
Harley-Davidson, one of U.S. industry's inspiring success stories of the '80s, roared from near bankruptcy to market dominance through a combination of Japanese production methods, stiff temporary tariff help and, most visibly, employee involvement in the enterprise. But last year the Milwaukee-based maker of monster motorcycles -- hogs, to their fans -- began pushing for more involvement than some workers wanted. Result: in early February employees at Harley's assembly plant in York, Pa., walked out. Management had proposed, among other things, varying factory employees' pay according to the quality and quantity of their production, while union members wanted...
Spies, arms merchants, nuclear strategists are "out" in this capital, which wickedly records such events. Economists, trade wizards, industrial planners, tariff analysts and venture capitalists are in demand. So are people with deep knowledge of the culture and history of the nations now changing their political and economic systems. "In some ways this is like the Europe of 1914, and we need people with a sense of history," declares Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, insists that anyone with a knowledge of Rumania and Poland could have foretold that change would come...