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...practice of free trade with Japan is akin to acceptance of a grievous handicap in that Japan does not abide by the same set of rules, that is resulting in a historic transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan. I have little faith in the trade agreements that have been signed between the U.S. and Japan because they only are conceived after great pressure has been applied and frequently before global summit-conferences in order to reduce world-wide media attention on Japan. For those nations whose trade policies are based on free trade and allow equal access...
...headaches in the Baltics, the Soviet leader faces a June session of the Congress of the Russian Federation, the deliberative body of the Russian republic. That will be followed by the crucial 28th Communist Party Congress, starting on July 2. At that meeting Gorbachev is expected to consolidate the transfer of his power base from the party to the newly formed presidency. "He cannot simply turn up at these meetings," said a Soviet spokesman. "He has to prepare for them." Administration officials admitted that the earlier summit allows Gorbachev to send a strong signal, as one put it, "that Lithuania...
This spring, the Office of Disability Resources will acquire a talking computer, a computer with enlarged print for the visually impaired and a Braille typesetter, says Shin. It will also acquire a scanner which will read and then transfer text onto a disk, which could then be used with the typesetter. Shin says he is excited about the purchases...
...creation of an independent government. Though the caravan quickly disappeared behind the gates of an army base in Vilnius, the ominous parade was obviously intended to intimidate the Lithuanians. But the ploy only persuaded the legislators to prepare for the worst. They immediately passed an emergency resolution to transfer their authority to the republic's representative in Washington in case martial law was imposed...
...difference between the exits of Duvalier and Avril was that civilians, not military men, engineered the latest transfer of power to a provisional government -- and that gave Haitians cause for hope. Last Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Ertha Pascal Trouillot was sworn in as President. "My essential task is electoral preparations at a national level," she declared, "and to pass power to a democratically elected government...