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-opinion. Restriction rerii ir.p rnn WIM W I Eighty-eight trade mij (Geneva to discuss the ( Tariffs and Trade. As prohibits tariffs, their around other issues, sue! to trade, buch non-tari governments eager to red Governments have trac foster the growth of new the life of dying industrie imported manufacturers they increase the price o: priced imports are less sumer, who logically p /-Jrtmnc*finnlln innrJ ct uumvvTm-aiij pi uuu^cu g for those consumers. Thus, tariffs are popu especially those in which re-election. They are nc sighted individuals who effects of such policies. Tariffs improve a corn t^AAJIUUAIlg lllipUl Id. 1UC others will attempt to e: levying similar tariffs o ment cannot expect to 1 without other countries U to limit imports. Despite the illogic of trade, governments sti others' firms from theii States and France lea< i ^ creasing unemployment1 Both governments barriers, clever devices 1 uphold the letter, but not The Reagan administrat continue to limit its aut United States. Reagan' effect as a tariff upon President Mitterand's import documents to k Beside appealing to Fi policy discourages for selling their products in ] all imports of Japanese than 270,000) to pass thr at Poitiers. Its four-pers the Japanese video rec time waiting to clear th than in French shop win< All these policies will c and French workers. If its citizens to purchase automobiles (by restri desirable foreign cars) jobs in America's autoi policy will please Gener It will also ensure tha export industries, su agriculture, will lose the Tariff and non-tarrifl unemployment. They ai to create jobs. They on not innovate, and that crease in newer, more \ rely upon overseas mar our government to ignoi the past few decades. i Gome I Kditor-i Richard Copy Desk Chief David DeWitt Asst. Copy Desk Chief . . Kay Bender News Kditor John Braun Asst. News Kd.. Richard Culbertson I Asst. News Kditor. . Forrest Brown Erit. Kditor John Vaughan Asst. Knt. Kditor Chris Handal . Sports Kditor Johnny Bongs /Assi. sports r.auoi . . ucnnis owuzer Newsroom 777-7181 Business Office 777-3888 The Gamecock welcomes letters am editorials must be typewritten, triple sj Letters should be no longer than 30C limited to one newsworthy subject no and guest editorials MUST be signe< number, mailing address, class star Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but the request If the circumstances warrant. We reserve the right to qdlt guest edit Address letters and columns to: Op I A, USC. Columbia, SC. 29208. mmummmmmKmmmmmmmsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmma is on trade ipetition listers are meeting in General Agreement on the (iATT virtually 4HLT discussions revolve ti as non-tariff barriers JtoajWt iff barriers appeal to |HHRkV^ luce unemployment. litionally used tariffs to Mr industries or to prolong IfBMMi ss. By levying a duty on Bpftl ' or farmers' products, f these imports. Higher attractive to the con- ^ % purchases the cheaper |BBpa5 oods. This creates jobs lar with governments, politicians are seeking i su popular wiin iar weigh the long-term ^ 1 try's trade balance by y also guarantee that i ?? delude your exports by ?1 ? *T n you. Simply, governevy tariffs on imports p aking similar measures pflffl attempting to restrict D ? 11 attempt to exclude By Barry Pom r markets. The United several ha i the race to link in- posed concer with free trade. with particu rely upon non-tariff America. Fii hat restrict trade. They ourseives wh< Jr 7 ., A Arnrrf overshadows the spirit, of the GATT. that we ign0I ion has asked Japan to North-South I- " 1 _ L? i._ 4-1 ? 1 ,omooue exports i.u uie mways sup] s quota has the same communist ft i Japanese imports. context oS government requires all >e written in French. For exam] 'ench nationalists, this United sta !?ign companies from SSblvT France. It also requires the Sandinisi video recorders (more tactics actua OUgh the custom houses providing th >on staff guarantees that orders will spend more ?faim that u ie parking lot in Poitiers and therefore lows. ireate jobs for American ^ I our government forces IIQl domestically produced cuug uitpuiis ui mure Editor* , it will create or save mobile industry. Such a At 2:15 a.m al Motors and Chrysler. *he prendletor t American workers in fr^ eeuing5 ich as aerospace or of the univer irjobs. me. : barriers cannot reduce f^ *e the least sensible ways wanted'. Whe u. ?t - iy niauxt: tiicit nuns will aging oiacK i unemployment will in- window shut >romising industries that badge numb kets. We must not allow :e these simple lessons of C rg p m ;cock 1 may in- iiief J Editor: Meyers Opinion Page Kditor. Leslie Katz Although C Wire Kditor Sydne Waller ??Knr?lru/nr Ph<>"> ^ilor Andy Putnam Asst. Photo Kditor JohnOsborn lu wm u u? i General Manager Hon Emler Adviser Mark Ethridge, Jr. daily COnver Ad Manager Linda S. Haines ill merely SJ Business Manager . . Jean Hatchell suggestions. Production Manager Mark McEwan Advertising 777 4249 Though not production 7772833 instruments, message,cor I guest editorials. All letters and guest paced on a 65-space-line. i words and guest editorials should be researchers > I,,,t,..,,,,/ n???. I . yg wn0 wan, d with the writer's name, telephone frhof ti/o Hnn idin#,' or /acuity position and major. l"ai ?0n > writer's name may be withheld upon lYlOrfll StfllCC lorials and letters. nion Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawert :: -- >rs ? sign policy ars ird questions must be ning U.S. foreign policy lar regard to Central st of all, we must ask sut ether our policies are so sur i by East-West concerns e an even more serious I problem. Must we ftr port the most anti- it action, or might we do C01 ;ider the unique political to h situation? Un Ma pie, in Nicaragua the wa tes exerts economic ecc i shores up Honduras, pec counter the influence of as. But what do these lly accomplish, besides le Sandinistas with a unc 1 anti-American rallying ids plausibility to their \ le nation is under siege, wj i personal rights must be wj, ent objects . on the morning of Friday Nov. 1 Street Garage to retrieve a dr ;tairwell on the sixth level. I hat it and was leaving in my car wh< sity Police Department's Cushn I down several levels with the pped my car and got out to see v n nnlitplv asIcpH u/hnt Ha u/antoH man, snapped a retort at me an in my face. When I asked for er, he nearly scared the life ikers themsi influence pi oncerned persons have pointed d masking" in rock music, they >f an equally insidious threat tfr sations. No doubt people of goo< >eaking to others, unwittingly pi accompanied by the devilish rhj our own words may be mast nplemented by the sounds of our can provide some sort of dictior ; to know which word combinat 't subliminally seduce others ? >f our country. Lngl j*. JOHTffirMTOB m WNRWBKMN deemed man ? tend guest editorial Peo ? ??? . ? pav K>rdinated to the fight for national So t vival. the )oes our support of Honduras really jjrl engthen our world position, or does rat merely back Nicaragua into a iier, leaving uiem no recourse DUl ^he move closer to Cuba or the Soviet ion, facilitating a move towards irxism-Leninism, the likelihood of r with Honduras and worsening the . >nomic plight of the Nicaraguan hUJ >ple? Fo sin dl of these questions point to the onl lerlying problem: im J.S. foreign policy is concerned T th the conflict of ideologies and not Dej th the welfare of people. Thus it jnt< to disrespectfu reaching into his coat sue assumed to be a gun, but 18,1 went into radio. After several rep opped cassette number, I left, telling hii 1 ilicf ratnrno^ 1 * - .ivu 1113 uiaicapcvi anu ruuene in I noticed one nan's following This conduct, in my opi officer of the law. No p vehicle in hot disrespectful of an innocei vhat the officer I think this officer should , the officer, an that he owes me an apolog td slammed his his name and out of me by eives ublic out the dangers nave neglected fja lat lurks in war iary for those of ions are safe so md weaken the William Cash "TVWT^ LAME-POCK, ish graduate studant 0RAWEP." s U&.J .,< * 5 * ? I * ' V v J \ \ y ? ioulative Is to be short-sided, arrogant and lipulative of whole populations. pie are seen not as people, but as ms. If some policies ferment war, _ _ ii rr i? r _ i i-i- * - ? as ii. ii me is rnaue miseraDie ior people, so be it. If a corrupt or ital regime is supported, it is ionalized. No effort is made to see i human costs of such actions, nor is s quite natural antipathy that we ng upon ourselves anticipated. )ur policies have an enormous man impact; they should be forilated with human concern, reign policy conducted without this iple concern for humanity is not y immoral; it has also proven to be practical. he author is a senior in USC's oartment of Government and srnatinnnl SZtur1ie>a I policeman Idenly and whipping out an object I t which actually turned out to be a eated demands for his name and Ki that I intended to report him for ss. inion, is entirely unbecoming of an ublic servant should be rude and nt citizen and tax and tuition payer, be reprimanded for his action, and :y. James L Chavis Jr. Media arts major ?t - 196? T?? Ofiando Fi#4d Newspaper SyrvdiCtle CCW6RBS... MOT LAME