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...more important element of the package, in the long run, is a proposal that would help the White House twist arms more effectively when dealing with foreign competition. The Administration suggests that the entire trading relationship between the U.S. and any alleged offending country be a factor in considering retaliation for any unfair trading practices. That would allow the Administration formally to take into account any U.S. trade deficit or surplus with each country, as well as the openness of both national marketplaces to similar export products. Theoretically, Washington could then impose tariffs or trade quotas on those that have...
...UNIVERSITY has already broken its official ties with the nine all-male final clubs, but the clubs still remain a powerful element of the College's social life. For starters, the activists could help combat the persistence of--and even the trend toward--exclusivity and elitism on campus. Finals clubs would serve as excellent targets for agitation...
...cameras once again dancing attendance, some important things had changed since the days of red-neck heroes like ex- Governor Lester Maddox (who made an appearance with the white supremacists). Said Georgia's current Governor Joe Frank Harris: "We do not and will not tolerate a rabble-rousing, troublemaking element that casts a negative image on a state whose race relations have been marked in large measure by harmony, goodwill and peaceful coexistence." William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, was there watching and vowing that violence would not be permitted. As lawmen in helicopters...
...dead. Nobody was motivated, except to get out. Survival was the key. It wasn't very romantic." Each of the three combat units he served in was divided into antagonistic groups, as in the film: "On one side were the lifers, the juicers ((heavy drinkers)) and the moron white element. Guys like Sergeant Barnes -- and there really was a sergeant as scarred and obsessed as Barnes -- were in this group. On the other side was a progressive, hippie, dope- smoking group: some blacks, some urban whites, Indians, random characters from odd places. Guys like Elias -- and there really...
...violent radicals are not responding to calls for moderation. Notes Allister Sparks, a liberal South African journalist: "An element is emerging in the black townships of South Africa that is beyond anyone's control, an element so brutalized that it now seeks only to kill and burn in blind revenge...