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...that would require all cars, including the best-selling imports, to be made in large measure by American workers using U.S. parts. President Reagan has said he will not sign a local-content bill. The Administration has also delayed pressing for a fourth year of import restrictions. In the wake of Uno's unexpected declaration, however, the Administration may have to find a way to reopen the door to negotiations on autos quickly so that it can keep the protectionists at bay. One wedge may the issue of agricultural quotas. The U.S. trade representative's office announced last...
Every morning about 1 million Americans wake up in hospitals. By the end of the day they have run up medical bills totaling some $375 million. Until about ten years ago, most hospitals were operated as nonprofit community institutions without much regard for cost-effective management. But now private enterprise has discovered the hospital business. Says U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio: "There is one business that is growing faster than the computer business-franchised medicine...
...WAKE of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stunning victory two weeks ago, many of her supporters have predicted all sorts of peachy things to come for their proud country, promising everything short of a return to world domination and a repeat of the Falklands victory in the Ukraine...
Solomon Amendement foes have intensified their efforts on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Court decision. Currently, there are two House bills calling for a delay in implementation and one in the Senate, as well as one on each side mandating a repeal of the legislation. A staffer from the Education subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources--where both senate bills are being held--said that while there was some support for the measures, there was only "a limited possibility" that the bills would pass. Any possible legislation would be subject to a probable President...
...making Poland "a land of pluralism." That message has not been lost on the hard-liners in Poland's divided and demoralized Communist Party. Jaruzelski has rebuffed past challenges to his approach, but the embarrassing display of national defiance that seemed to follow in the Pope's wake could make it more difficult for him to convince his rivals in Poland's Politburo-and Moscow-that his policy of normalization is firmly on track...