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...Tokyo park is making its debut during the 60th anniversary year of the founding of Walt Disney Studios, and at a time designated by the United Nations as World Communications Year. To the chairman of Oriental Land, affable Masatomo Takahashi, 69, that seems fitting. The park, says he, "should serve as another bridge for mutual understanding between the U.S. and Japan." And between the U.S. and all of Asia. Mickey Mouse is likely to be greeting folks from all over the Pacific basin, as tourists flock to Tokyo Bay. Like his U.S. counterparts, the Japanese Mickey is instructed never...
...costs of short-term hospital stays for Medicare patients. There are 29 million of them; most are retirees on fixed incomes. Under the present system, Medicare recipients pay a deductible ($350 in 1984) for the first day in the hospital. Thereafter, Medicare picks up the whole cost through the 60th day, and part of it for 30 days more. After an additional "lifetime reserve" of 60 days has been depleted, Government coverage ends, and the patient is fully liable. By contrast, the Administration plan would provide unlimited coverage after the 60th day but require patients to pay not only...
That influence shines through clearly in On Sakharov, first printed in Russian on the occasion of Sakharov's 60th birthday and just published in English. The collection celebrates Sakharov's life, accomplishments and indomitable spirit, and at the same time presents a brief for the importance of carrying on the struggle for human rights. Two dozen Russian intellectuals and scientists, almost all involved on some front of the crusade Sakharov still leads, and two American physicists who knew Sakharov as a scientists and as a human rights advocate, reminisce about Sakharov and his work. The book also includes poetry, short...
TIME was just two months old in May 1923 when the first Frenchman, former Premier Rene Viviani, appeared on its cover. Since then, there have been 105 other cover stories devoted to French individuals or events. Last week, inaugurating TIME's 60th anniversary, all those covers went on exhibit at Paris' Georges Pompidou Center. Titled "America Looks at France, TIME 1923-1983," the exposition not only chronicles 20th century Gallic history, but also documents TIME's interest in the personalities and preoccupations of the French...
Despite the posters hanging through out Prague to hail the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union, the Czechs consider their relationship with Moscow to be one of accommodation, even resignation...