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...record, Jimmy Carter is a free-trader. He is also committed to reducing U.S. unemployment, and growing imports threaten jobs. How to reconcile these conflicting responsibilities is one of his most acute dilemmas. So far he has leaned to free trade. By refusing to impose a higher tariff or fixed quotas on imported footwear, he relieved many U.S. friends abroad. "A victory for us and the American consumer," exulted Niveo Friedrich, head of a Brazilian shoe manufacturers' association. Though the President's decision is likely to stick, he can be overridden by Congress, where protectionist pressures are traditionally...
...Trading with the Third World. Kissinger toyed with the idea of commodity price stabilization agreements that would insulate developing countries from wild swings in their earnings from export sales of raw materials, but Ford's Treasury Secretary, William Simon, an ardent free-trader, knocked it down. No such conflicts have shown up in the Carter Administration. The President, while not committing the U.S. to stabilization plans, seems willing to discuss them. The Administration last week informed a United Nations meeting in Geneva that it is ready to talk about the financing of stabilization plans...
...jeans. Some wanted Carter to drive his own car in city traffic jams and to do his own shopping at the supermarket-just to keep a feel for prices. Warned Karl Olson of Rockville, Md.: "Don't go to the real exclusive places for lunch like Sans Souci, Trader Vic's or places like that. I suggest McDonald's ... Eat where the people...
...have followed with great interest the recent articles in The Crimson regarding the one-million dollar gift to Harvard by the Korean Trader's Association (KTA), and the possible relationship between that donation and the influence-peddling activities of the Korean government operatives in Washington. As persons connected with this case, we now feel called upon to speak out publicly on this issue...
...surprisingly, Bellow himself is the literal heir to two cultures. He was born in a suburb of Montreal in 1915, the fourth and last child of Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow's phrase, "a sharpie circa 1905 in Russia." In 1924 the family settled on Division Street in Chicago; Bellow thus grew up speaking English, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Twice-removed from the land of his parents-and a Jew in the predominantly Protestant Midwest -Bellow had good reason to wonder where...