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...trading partner, Japan. Without a pact, Ottawa fears, the U.S. Congress will indiscriminately freeze more Canadian goods out of U.S. markets. In the past year, Canada has been bruised in fights over exports to the U.S. of softwood lumber used in housing and other timber products; it is now under pressure to avoid enlarging its nearly 3% share of the $32 billion American steel market. For its part, the Administration sees a deal with Canada as leverage that could be used at the new round of worldwide free-trade talks currently under way in Geneva...
...long ago midnight knock on the door. The port of entry to the most deadly archipelago of the Gulag system, it became a synonym for the terror Joseph Stalin visited upon the land. At least 2 million prisoners were worked to death in its gold mines and timber forests and on its road projects. Since then, with few exceptions, the city of Magadan and the vast region around it have been closed to foreigners. When the Soviets permitted a small group to visit Magadan, Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson was among them. His report...
...election, you saw the desire around the country for candidates who could make Government work, for defining some Government roles. It was flowing from parts of the country where people began thinking, 'Hey, we need something from Government after all.' It was coming primarily from areas dependent on mining, timber, agriculture, energy, textiles, steel. They stopped thinking of Government as something that just took care of muggers and Detroit welfare mothers, the whole conservative rhetorical syndrome...
...EVEN when the possible candidates address these non-Washington concerns they have failed to do so with vigor. Indeed perhaps the saddest thing about this year's crop of presidential timber is that few of them seem to be morally outraged. Every problem has a practical explanation and solution. And everything seems to be tied to economic competitiveness. Even when Gary Hart, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, argues that we should improve the nation's schools, he says it's because our Gross National Product is suffering...
Back in the children's room, the excitement finished, the kids got back to more important matters, their potato printing. Apparently today's entry of television and presidential timber into their lives was not really all that special...