Relations worsen

Press, 17 November 1976, Page 9

Relations worsen

i The strained trade relations between Japan and the | Common Market have taken la new turn for the worse. The E.E.C. Commission has I opened proceedings against alleged cut-price dumping of ball-bearings by Japanese r exporters. A Commission if i spokesman said the action i- had been taken after cornel plaints from E.E.C. makers I of ball-bearings in West! a I Germany, Britain, and .France. The ball-bearing; issue highlights the growing; r imood of disenchantment in s |the Community at the ag--3 gressive export policies of the Japanese. — Brussels. r High illegitimacy I s For the first time since . I records have been kept, ; j.more children were born out jof wedlock last year in the' * United States capital, Wash-1 g ington, than were born toj married women, according to I . the city’s human resources; department. The National ’ I Centre for Health Statistics 'said Washington was the ' | first major American city “where that has occurred, the r Associated Press reports. City officials reported that ’ 4988 children were born to . unmarried women in the I District of Columbia in 1975, ; f compared with 4758 born to| . married women. Officials said 57 per cent of all child-; ren born to blacks in Wash-1 ’ ington last year were born I I out of wedlock, and 12.9 per j cent of white babies were; ’ illegitimate. — Washington.