Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound out the Russian diplomat about Soviet intentions, but Gromyko remained unhelpful. Gromyko was equally uncooperative during a chat with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, who came away with the impression that the Soviets were unyielding in their determination to prevent the Federal Republic from having any further trade and diplomatic contacts with the East bloc...
Britain's Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia "my Viet Nam"-and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson's war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an estimated $500 million in lost trade with Rhodesia. The failure of the sanctions has diminished Wilson's stature at home and Britain's standing with its Commonwealth allies. With South Africa's aid, Rhodesia has weathered the sanctions and could for all practical purposes simply declare itself a republic. It is already preparing a new green and white flag and a new constitution...
...Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work without a union card. Last month, in a direct attack on color barriers in trade unions, a U.S. district court found that the local had violated not only the 1964 Civil Rights Act but also a 102-year-old post-Civil War statute that was only recently invoked by the Supreme Court to bar bias in housing. Following up his 86-page decision, Judge Timothy...
...Hard Facts. At Blackpool, Cousins was determined to put the unions' unhappiness on record. As the first order of conference business, he introduced a motion to condemn compulsory wage and price guidelines as dampers on both trade-union activity and economic expansion and called for their immediate repeal. In answer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins made brutally clear, "the hard facts of life" gave Britain little choice. In 1967, he pointed out, prices increased only 2% while wages jumped 6%. "The only trouble was that we did not earn it," he said. "Production that year went...
...TRADE. Humphrey advocates reducing such nontariff barriers as quotas and import taxes, while protecting domestic industries against "unfair dumping" by foreign producers. Both men are fundamentally free traders, but Nixon goes along with "temporary" protection for such hard-pressed industries as steel and textile. He blames domestic inflation for the nation's shrinking trade surplus...