Word: visits
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...actually cheered legislators who are preparing a new version of a tough omnibus trade bill that passed the House of Representatives last year but died in the Senate. One version of the new bill is expected to reach the House floor on April 28, the day before Nakasone's visit. Says Senator Max Baucus of Montana, a leading congressional activist on trade issues: "The President's semiconductor action is sort of a turning point. We're going to stop talking and start taking action...
...historic free-trade agreement with Washington that would remove tariffs and most other trade barriers between the two countries during the next 15 years or so. President Reagan was to endorse that effort once again in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on a one-day state visit to Ottawa this week. But other close U.S. allies fear they may eventually be left out in the cold. Says a top European Community trade official in Brussels: "What worries us is that the U.S.-Japanese trade deficit will be balanced on the backs of the Europeans...
...woman who is as punctual as she is punctilious, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seemed to lose all track of time. The occasion was a five- day official visit last week to the Soviet Union that she breathlessly declared her most "fascinating and invigorating" ever. At a performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Thatcher and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev delayed the second act for 20 minutes while they conferred over smoked sturgeon about arms control. The next day Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe was forced to improvise at a British embassy luncheon when the Prime...
...perhaps the high point of the visit was a final 50-minute Thatcher press conference that was broadcast by Soviet TV in its entirety. Peppered with hostile questions from Soviet journalists, the Prime Minister gave far better than she got. She correctly informed viewers that the Soviet Union possesses numerical superiority over the West in intercontinental ballistic missiles, in intermediate-range and shorter-range rockets and in the total number of nuclear warheads -- matters that are never brought up by Soviet leaders. "Don't ignore what you are doing in the Soviet Union," she admonished one of her questioners...
...Soviet embassy in Paris last week dismissed the entire tale as "pure fantasy," and in Moscow the Foreign Ministry expelled four French diplomats and two French businessmen. The tit-for-tat comes at a bad time: Chirac is due to visit Moscow...