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...Strait jacket. The complaint is certainly valid in the case of Japan, which has sealed off its markets while flooding other countries with its wares (TIME cover, May 10). In January, when the final cuts of the Kennedy Round take effect, Japan's tariffs on industrial goods will average 11% v. the U.S.'s 8.4%. Before Washington slapped on the surcharge, Toyotas and Datsuns easily rolled over the U.S.'s 3.5% tariff on cars; by contrast, Japan not only has a 10% tariff on American cars but also hits buyers with a special 40% sales...
...Dammed Strait. By far the most controversial atomic scheme proposed by Soviet planners is the damming of the Bering Strait, the 55-mile-wide stretch of water between Alaska and Siberia. "This would be highly beneficial for Siberia," according to Seaborg, "because the cold Arctic waters bathing the eastern coast would be replaced by warmer Pacific water. Eastern Siberia might then be opened up to agriculture." Prospects for a Bering dam are dim, however, because it would span international waters and require the approval of other nations. That approval, especially by the U.S., is unlikely; the cold water would have...
Seventh Fleet patrols have been withdrawn from the Taiwan Strait, and there are almost no combat troops among the 8,900-man U.S. military force on the island. The overwhelming majority of the uniformed Americans on the island are service and supply personnel providing back-up for troops in Viet Nam, and it is generally assumed that they will be withdrawn as the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia winds down...
...past the mandatory retirement age of 64. Convinced that war was imminent, Hart kept the principal warships based in Manila Bay out of the harbor, avoiding another Pearl Harbor. Forced to move his headquarters south to Java, Hart commanded the outnumbered Americans in the three-day battle of Makassar Strait, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese fleet. In 1945, Hart, a Republican, was appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Instead of seeking election when the term expired two years later, he retired to spend his last decades on his farm in Sharon...
...pipeline that runs 160 miles from Eilat across the Negev to the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon, the big hole is ordinarily choked with tankers waiting to off-load oil. Last week one such ship became a special attraction for vacationers at seaside motels. While moving through the narrow strait of Babel Mandeb (Gate of Tears), which separates the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the 78,000-ton tanker Coral Sea had been attacked by a speedboat whose occupants fired ten bazooka shells at the unarmed vessel during a ten-minute pass...