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...textile, or textile-shoe, bill is the forerunner of more than 200 measures that would curb imports. There are bills that would reduce imports of ^ copper, timber, even roses and "waterbed mattresses, liners and parts thereof"; bills that would penalize all imports from particular countries --mainly Japan, naturally--or groups of countries; bills that would require regular intervention in exchange markets. Many are based on a crude idea of reciprocity: buy more from us or we will buy less from you. Thus a bill drafted by Democrats, but boasting strong Republican support as well, would slap a 25% penalty tariff...
...residents, both Lutheran and Roman Catholic, suffer dangerous guilt complexes. Just as the middle Olson boy reaches out to examine the medallion between the breasts of a sultry waitress from Mom and Dad's Cafe, Lake Wobegon's four-story grain elevator explodes, showering the town with chunks of timber...
...colleagues for days and even weeks over almost any amendment he wants to make. Steve Symms of Idaho, up for re-election next year, says he will "support" Reagan's plan but oppose the provisions that adversely affect his state: reduced tax breaks for the timber industry, mortgage deductions for vacation homes, mineral-depletion allowances and investment tax credits for farmers. Says North Dakota Congressman Byron Dorgan: "We're packaging 30 or 40 issues that each would be a major fight...
...began to clear, rescue teams managed at last to take to the waters and pick up survivors. At least 4,000 men, women and children were saved; many of them had clung to floating bamboo rooftops or pieces of driftwood. One 14-year-old girl clutched a piece of timber for 18 hours before she was pulled to safety. A man was said to have held on to his wooden bed for two days before a vessel found...
...evokes a child's view of events. But in explaining the parents' political fervor and in analyzing their times, Davita's Harp too often limits itself to predictable externalities. Potok relies heavily on the imagination of other artists: the explanation for Davita's father's alienation from his timber- tycoon forebears, for example, is that he witnessed a real-life scene of antiunion violence that is vividly evoked in John Dos Passos' 1919, and Davita comes to understand him by reading the book. He also introduces a surrogate uncle to Davita, a refugee writer whose fables are full of images...