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Next morning, after a final session, Mondale read a statement that summarized the meeting and crisply stated U.S. policy. It was utterly devoid of diplomatic euphemism. On both Rhodesia and Namibia, he said, there had been some slight progress, though "the significance of that progress will depend on future developments." On Rhodesia, Vorster had reluctantly agreed to press for an agreement leading to an independent Zimbabwe (the African nationalists' name for Rhodesia) during 1978. On Namibia, the U.N. trust territory that South Africa has administered since 1920, Vorster had made several concessions, Mondale declared, though the two countries disagreed...
...exploring ways to establish a floor and ceiling price for sugar, but U.S. experts give it only a fifty-fifty chance of success. The obvious way to push prices back up is to cut production, but that is difficult for nations such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which depend on sugar for most of their foreign-currency earnings. Meanwhile, the U.S. sugar industry faces another threat: the growing use by commercial food processors of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that is cheaper than sugar even at present prices...
Relations between the two countries depend in part on the outcome of Turkey's June 5 elections. Demirel's Justice Party is being challenged by the liberal Republican People's Party of former Premier Bulent Ecevit, who became something of a national hero by ordering the Cyprus invasion. Ecevit has been shot at four times on the hustings and angrily claims that his opponent prefers "pistols to polls." Although the campaign had been marred by violence, the nation was stunned by last week's massacre in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where 150,000 people...
Sentiment for the program is stronger in New England, whose frugal Yankees depend heavily on imported oil to survive harsh winters. "Most of the things Carter's mentioned, we're already doing," claimed Robert Hamm, owner of a small machine shop in Boston. "Why would you burn a fleet of lights and put up with a huge electric bill for nothing...
Levesque's plans for the economy of a separate Quebec depend on a continuing economic relationship with Canada, or a "New Deal" as O'Leary called it. "We want a kind of Common Market with the rest of Canada. That's in the interest of Canada, principally of Ontario, that has a market very, very important here in Quebec...