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...Nippon Steel to build a $350 million plant in the Soviet Union. The company now expects the French to pick up the contract. Says Armco Chairman William Verity: "The fact is, we have no economic leverage. Our allies are unwilling to deny the Soviet Union the technology we withhold, and we only hurt ourselves by our attitudes of moral imperialism...
...whole society," Carter admonished, "the entire American family, must try harder than ever to live within its means." His proposal to withhold income taxes from dividends and interest, as is now done with wages, is a fair step in the right direction. Otherwise, his measures tend to demand sacrifices in the common cause by those who are already struggling merely to obtain, at inflated prices, the necessities of life. Closing tax loopholes is the more humane route. Last year, profits for 1200 American industrial corporations, banks and utilities surveyed by Business Week, rose an average of 22 per cent over...
There is still some dispute, however, over just when the committees must be told. Carter argues that the President should be allowed to withhold information about some especially delicate operations if prior disclosure would endanger lives or embarrass friendly lives or embarrass friendly governments. Some Senators consider that too wide a loophole...
...lose my job to show the Soviets that we won't be pushed around, it's worth it." At Kennedy baggage handlers, who belong to the Teamsters, refused to unload Aeroflot airliners, forcing Soviet management personnel to do the job. The Teamsters asserted that members would also withhold ground service for Aeroflot planes landing at Dulles International Airport near Washington...
...embargo will permit the Soviet Union to buy only what remains of eight million metric tons of grain the U.S. is obligated to sell them. The U.S. will withhold an additional 17 million tons promised to the Soviets...