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Dawson is professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and was Chief of the Middle East Division of the Foreign Economic Administration. He served as Director of the Foreign Trade Administration for the Greek government...
Eastland, who supported the amendment while continuing to oppose the civil rights bill as a whole, said the section added today would give civil rights defendants the same right trade unionists now have in labor injunction cases...
Nowhere does emotion defy statistics more than in the case of oil. Argentina has reserves estimated at 882 million bbl., yet last year it paid out $220 million, a sum greater than its foreign-trade loss, to import oil from Venezuela and elsewhere. The Suez crisis cost the country a cruel $100 million in higher crude prices and freights. Foreign oil companies would get the oil out of the ground or spend millions in Argentina trying. Instead, oil-is-ours nationalism assigns petroleum development to the capital-short, bureaucratic Y.P.F...
...charts with a recording of an original composition, White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation) on Columbia, which bewails the loss of a girl for whom the rig was intended. When he is not before the radio mikes, Robbins carries this and other throat-huskers out to the country trade in an old Greyhound bus with bunks and a built-in shower. And a shower to sing in is just what his voice needs...
...even the Swiss deny that secrecy has sheltered some fancy financial shenanigans. Egypt reportedly financed arms deals through Swiss banks. Each year the Soviet Union ships about $100 million worth of gold to Switzerland, presumably to finance such undercover operations as its spying and propaganda network in the West, trade deals to get around the embargo on strategic goods. Such ousted rulers as Egypt's Farouk, ex-President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and Argentina's ousted Dictator Juan Perón keep fortunes in Swiss banks all presumably pilfered from public funds. But sometimes the secrecy of Swiss...