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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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,
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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
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