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The quadrupling of U.S. exports during the 1970s (to $181.6 billion in 1979) and the current dependence of more than 4 million American jobs on foreign trade has given individual states a big stake in foreign affairs. Even lightly populated, once isolationist Nebraska has developed exten- sive foreign economic...