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...singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and the force of gravity," and "even dreams of being able to fly, weightlessly, like an angel or an astronaut." With his "driving death wish," he may hope to die by another's hand, fantasying that he will "rise upward to God in an antigravitational fashion...
...them too arrogant to be believed. Connally's one specific, and supposedly nonnegotiable, demand was that the other nations help the U.S. achieve a $13 billion-a-year swing in its trade balance, from a heavy deficit to a comfortable surplus. How? Presumably by some combination of upward revaluation of major European currencies and the Japanese yen, the removal of barriers against U.S. goods-which are higher in Japan than in Europe-and the assumption by other nations of more of the cost of maintaining U.S. military forces overseas. How to achieve such a combination, however, Connally...
...machines; U.S. businessmen must "buy American" to take advantage of the boon. Finally, some foreign leaders -particularly in France and Germany -are upset because the U.S. has refused to devalue the dollar by raising the price of gold. Instead, Washington is holding out for them to revalue their currencies upward, which would make their goods still costlier-and less competitive-in some world markets. Last week the Common Market's executive commission formally demanded an outright dollar devaluation...
...politeness, however, both sides were quite firm and explicit in restating the chasmal disagreements between the two nations. Rogers, speaking "directly and candidly," demanded a substantial revaluation upward of the yen, elimination of Japanese restrictions on U.S. imports and a "dramatic" increase in Japanese aid to developing countries. Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, who is a leading candidate to replace 70-year-old Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, was prepared to make one concession. He announced that Japan will remove import quotas on several U.S. products, including soybeans, light aircraft and air conditioners. But he was adamant in rebuffing demands that...
...little and too late. The proposals for tripartite prime-ministerial talks for the all-Ulster round-table conference and for the two-day debate in Commons-or even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse the upward spiral of violence. "No night passes without sporadic bombings and snipings, no day without bomb scares," TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast reported from Belfast last week. "On downtown streets there are almost as many armored cars as city buses. Steel mesh is going up over more and more shop windows...