Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Presidents, defended Reagan as a "very strong and decisive person" whose "judgment is excellent when he's given the right information." He told of trying to persuade Reagan that "when you get down into the dirt of the operational details," the Iran initiative had become simply a trade for hostages. "You're telling me things that I don't know," the President said to him. Replied Shultz: "Well, Mr. President, I don't know very much, but if I'm telling you things that are news to you, then you are not being given the kind of flow...
...late, Bok has argued that in addition to expanding a liberal arts education, bringing foreign students here and sending Harvard undergraduates overseas would boost America's competitiveness in international trade...
...November 1985 sale of 18 Hawk antiaircraft missiles from Israel to Iran. Poindexter testified that he watched Reagan sign the document on or about Dec. 5, 1985, his first day as NSC chief. The problem with this finding, said Poindexter, was that it depicted the transaction as a trade of arms for the release of Americans being held hostage in Lebanon. The paper would be superseded in January by a finding that explained the weapons sales and freedom for the hostages as part of a broad initiative to re-establish diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Iran. Poindexter said...
Economic Cooperation. How far are the Soviets willing to go to join the international economic community? Here too their words are surprising. They profess to be interested, for example, in participating in such capitalist cabals as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the International Monetary Fund. The question is whether they are willing to make the substantial accommodations involved. Says Peter Peterson, former Commerce Secretary under Richard Nixon and now chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations: "For GATT, this would mean having market prices for commodities in order to prevent unfair dumping practices. For the IMF, this...
...here to bury P.W. Botha, not to praise him," declared Elijah Barayi, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, at its convention in ( Johannesburg last week. The 1,500 delegates roared their approval of Barayi's plans for the South African President, then endorsed the Freedom Charter, the 1955 manifesto of the outlawed African National Congress that calls for an end to apartheid and nationalization of the country's banks, corporations and gold and coal mines...