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...vote dismayed American officials. "We strongly believe that Freedom House should be accredited," argued James Rubin, spokesman for the U.S.'s U.N. mission. The U.S. will continue the fight to reverse the ruling before the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, which meets late this month in Geneva to ratify the ngo committee's recommendations. "Freedom House clearly ranks among the most reputable and effective human-rights ngos in the world today," says Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck...
Some truisms: peace is better than war. Any increase in sales of U.S. goods to foreigners is preferable to none. A door to Japanese markets pushed open a crack beats one slammed shut. So the auto-and-parts agreement concluded by U.S. and Japanese negotiators in Geneva last week, just barely in time to head off a possible transpacific trade war, looks beneficial to both sides...
...plenty. For one thing, this time it might really happen: the Clinton Administration swears it is dead serious about slapping penalty tariffs on Japanese luxury cars Wednesday. The announcement over the weekend that U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and his Japanese counterpart, Ryutaro Hashimoto, will meet Monday in Geneva may increase the prospects of an eleventh-hour deal to expand sales of U.S. auto parts to Japan and keep the penalties from being put into effect. But even that would not defuse the intensifying confrontation between Washington and Tokyo...
...negotiators from the U.S. and Japan stepped in to try to forge an agreement in Geneva. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto began a series of what they vow will be round the clock meetings as they try to reach a trade agreementbefore Wednesday, when U.S. sanctions are due to take effect.No progress has yet been reported as the U.S. remains firm in its demand that Japan open its auto markets to American businesses. The Japanese still say their markets are open and that U.S. demands amount to little more than quotas. Any compromise will...
...first day of renewed trade talks between the U.S. and Japan broke off without any new developments. The Geneva talks are scheduled to end tomorrow, but could continue into next week in an effort to hammer out an agreement beforescheduled U.S. sanctions against Japanese luxury import cars are implemented next Wednesday.Both sides are refusing to budge from their positions. TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl reports: "All the forces are in play for a genuine trade war." But Baumohl expects some sort of concessions from Japan: "This is a fight the Japanese think they're going to lose." The U.S. needs...