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The GATT negotiations now mercifully reaching the end of their six-year course are not arcane procedures invented to keep diplomats busy, but a vital means by which the benefits of technology are widely shared.
Referees are the most honourable men and women, but they should not fight shy of refusing to referee manuscripts in which their interest is overdirect.
