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After the Reagan Administration's many pious pronouncements against protectionism and the agreement to foster free trade at the Williamsburg economic summit in May, the White House had a hard time defending the tariffs. They were, said U.S. Trade Representative William Brock, a "two by four" to swing against unfair subsidies and "a world system that is totally trade distortive, where governments intervene at will without any consideration of international rule." To many outsiders, though, the White House action looked like a cave-in to domestic pressures without consideration of the long-term consequences for international trade...
...quietly organized meeting seemed to have been planned as the Soviet bloc's answer to the Williamsburg summit. After all, if the heads of the six most powerful Western nations and Japan could use their conference in May to endorse NATO plans to deploy new nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the Soviets and their allies would want a chance to criticize the scheme in their own forum. But NATO members were in for a surprise. Instead of escalating the war of words, the seven Warsaw Pact leaders who gathered in Moscow last week issued a joint statement that...
...document criticized the "unprecedented" U.S. defense buildup. The Soviet Union and its allies, it said, would not "allow military superiority to be achieved over them." But this oft-repeated warning stopped short of the heavyhanded Soviet hints dropped on the eve of the Williamsburg summit that the Warsaw Pact would consider deploying nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe if NATO went ahead with its plan to install 572 U.S.-made Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in five West European countries beginning in December. Some parts of the Warsaw Pact's final statement were even conciliatory in tone...
...summitry. It is very important that the seven of us [leaders of the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada] get together. It is not so much the great communiques that came out, although the two communiques that came out [in Williamsburg last month] were very good and absolutely right for the Western world at this time. The thing is that we cannot meet in private. That is what all of us hanker after: to meet and have a good talk in private without the world press being there. But if two or three of us were...
Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.: "I could hardly leave today without issuing my own invitation to each of you to become involved in the joy of public service. The panoply of American democracy, contentious and colorful as it is, remains the best way to make life better and thus, to me, by far the best way to make a living. So I ask you to become partisans for democracy and to embrace change with all its uncertainty and all its potential for abuse. I ask you to manage it well...