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...Nixon Administration has deliberately stalled for nearly two months in seeking the necessary congressional approval of the dollar devaluation that it agreed to last December. Reason: the President and Treasury Secretary John Connally believed that they could use the delay to wring a few further trade concessions from Japan and the Common Market nations. It was a high-stakes gamble, since their plan ran the risk of undermining confidence in the entire new system of currency exchange rates worked out in the Smithsonian agreement. Last week that system began to teeter, and the Administration decided to take what it could...
...object of these efforts is to wring out some foreign trade concessions that President Nixon can boast about when he sends to Congress next month the bill formally devaluing the dollar-which came under renewed selling pressure in Europe last week. That, however, is only an interim goal. The current negotiations promise to be the opening gun in a years-long campaign to expand American exports by rewriting many of the rules that govern -and now restrict-world trade...
...hearings, if only because, as a House Banking Committee aide put it, "We get letters on this subject from people who underline their words and use lots of exclamation points and sometimes draw pictures." The Administration is in no hurry for formal approval, since negotiators may be able to wring a few more trade concessions out of the suspense period. Meanwhile, central banks will simply set their own temporary exchange rates at the levels specified by the new agreement...
...proclamation," Stokes expanded on a plan formulated by Georgia State Representative Julian Bond: black voters would withhold support from current presidential candidates and develop their own political organization. Although Stokes rejected the notion of a fourth-party nominee in 1972, he urged local groups to organize in order to wring concessions at the Republican and Democratic conventions. Said Stokes: "It isn't done by wishing and hoping, by leaving as many as 50,000 registered black voters at home. Personalities come and go, but the issues and the processes go on. And nothing happens...
...coerced confession. There have been, and are now, certain foreign nations with governments dedicated to an opposite policy: governments which convict individuals with testimony obtained by police organizations possessed of an unrestrained power to seize persons suspected of crimes against the state, hold them in secret custody, and wring from them confessions by physical means or mental torture. So long as the Constitution remains the basic law of our republic, America will not have that kind of government...