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Takeshita's task was made easier by an abrupt turnaround in the balance of trade between the two countries, another source of irritation to Beijing. In 1985 a flood of Japanese consumer goods into China ballooned trade between the two nations to $19 billion, with Japan enjoying a $6 billion surplus. Since then China has cut back on imports and dramatically increased exports to Japan. For the first six months of 1988, trade was up to a record $10.3 billion, but now China enjoys a $530 million surplus...
...international protocol that forbids the use of chemical weapons, the Iraqis have relied increasingly over the past four years on mustard gas, and possibly cyanide gas and nerve agents as well, to combat Iranian forces. Chemical weapons, dubbed "that hellish poison" by Winston Churchill, weighed heavily in Iran's abrupt decision last month to abandon the fight against Iraq and pursue a cease-fire. No matter when peace is finally achieved, the use of chemical weapons will remain a lasting legacy of the war, and its consequences will be debated by the international community for years to come. Says Julian...
...public office for private gain" and "giving preferential treatment to any organization or person." McKay is also expected to refer this list of lapses to the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, which may then launch an investigation of its own. Some Justice officials suggested that Meese's abrupt resignation was designed to pre-empt or at least blunt such an embarrassing in-house probe. But the Justice Department inquiry can go ahead even after Meese's departure...
...professors complain that Summer School administrators made an abrupt policy change by requiring them to ask for TFs in courses that have customarily had them...
Fairfax's decision to sell the two magazines represents an abrupt about- face. It was only a year ago that the company, which is Australia's second largest publishing concern, dispatched Yates to the U.S. to create Sassy, an American version of Fairfax's fabulously successful Australian teen magazine Dolly. Last September, upon hearing that Ms. Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine were looking for a new source of funding, Yates persuaded her Australian bosses to buy the magazine for a reported $10 million. She then installed Summers, a feminist historian and former chief of Fairfax's New York bureau...