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Self-taping and self-bugging is not a crime, although recording a telephone conversation without using a beeper to warn the unsuspecting party at the other end is a violation of Federal Communications Commission tariff regulations. The penalty normally is a warning from the telephone company to stop any secret taping or risk the loss of its telephone service. The FCC ordered AT&T to check into the Nixon telephone-taping practice. An official...
Brezhnev's thorniest selling problem turned on his desire for most-favored-nation status for Russia. That status was part of the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October and would mean tariff cuts of 50% or more on Soviet imports into the U.S. But 77 Senators and 284 Representatives have backed legislation to deny M.F.N. to any nation that limits free emigration. Their chief concern is the plight of Soviet Jews who want to leave Russia...
...amendments, should they pass when the trade bill is taken up by Congress later this year, will not halt trade with the Soviet Union. But Moscow is particularly eager to get special status because it would mean tariff cuts of up to 50% on Soviet imports into...
Fulbright was angry that the Senate had refused to pass an Administration trade bill giving the Soviet Union most-favored-nation tariff concessions. The Senate's objections centered on the "education tax" (as much as $30,000 per person) that Moscow has been imposing on educated Soviet Jews who emigrated to Israel. Fulbright and others did not think that the tax, an internal Soviet measure, was a legitimate U.S. concern. Nonetheless, the pressure paid off. Last week, in order to get the trade bill through the Senate, Moscow advised the U.S. that it was suspending the controversial...
Nixon argues persuasively that he needs the new power in order to negotiate from strength at world-trade talks beginning in September. He will get an argument from protectionist Congressmen who want to require, rather than merely permit, higher tariffs or quotas on imports that threaten the prosperity of U.S. industries. The President prudently proposed to give Congress a veto over the way he might exercise many of the new trade powers that he is requesting. In a typical example, if he decided to grant "most-favored-nation" tariff status to imports from the Soviet Union, either House or Senate...