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...moving smaller producers, who now hold 13% of the market: Anaconda Aluminum, Harvey Aluminum and Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...
Last month alone, 30,415 East Germans escaped to West Berlin, one-third of them workers badly needed by labor-short East German industry and transport. Presumably to offset these losses, the Communists began making trouble for the 52,000 East Germans who, by subway and elevated, daily commute to jobs in West Berlin. No published order exists prohibiting East Germans from working in West Berlin, but East German army and police last week summarily began hauling East Germans off their commuter trains even before they reached the East Berlin sector on their way to the Western half...
Ever since Britain diffidently began knocking at the door, the six nations of Europe's booming Common Market have found themselves at slight odds. Eager to have Britain in to offset French-German hegemony in the market, the three Benelux nations have tried to slow the pace of togetherness. France's Charles de Gaulle, who dreams of using the Common Market to Gallicize Europe, has tried to force the pace to discourage Britain. A "political" summit meeting of the heads of state of the Six, scheduled last spring, was called off because of all the intramural squabbling...
...have no antiballistic missiles as a defense to offset this superiority in offense...
...part at least, the U.S. was likely to get its way. Hong Kong textile makers, who have upped their U.S. exports just about enough to offset the effect of the voluntary quotas accepted by Japan four years ago, were vocally indignant at a Washington demand that they cut their shipments to the U.S. by 30%. But most Asian producers would almost surely accept voluntary quotas rather than risk provoking the U.S. to formal tariff discrimination against them. As for the textile-importing nations, all the participants in last week's Washington conference tentatively endorsed the U.S. plan, presumably will...