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However, Kang has since filed countercharges that allege Foppiano had been the aggressor in the incident. In statements to the police while he was in the hospital, Kang said that Foppiano attempted to cut his throat in the park after the two had met on the bridge in what his attorney called "a friendly encounter...
...battles to fight against its aggrieved clients and the investing public. Late last week a lawyer in Philadelphia filed the first suit on behalf of stockholders in the companies listed in the Government's case. As Drexel's legal troubles proliferate, they are already transforming the firm from an aggressor feared by competitors into an embattled defender of its prominent place on Wall Street...
...former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's controversial 1987 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial for Japanese war dead. As recently as last April, Japanese Land Agency Director General Seisuke Okuno unleashed a flood of criticism from Beijing with his remark that Japan was "by no means the aggressor nation in World War II," a claim the Chinese labeled as "contrary to historical fact." If Okuno had not resigned, Takeshita's visit to China most likely would have been scrubbed at Beijing's insistence...
Japanese officials are almost unfailingly circumspect. Then there is Seisuke Okuno, director-general of Japan's National Land Agency. Last month Okuno provoked protests throughout Asia by declaring that his country "was by no means the aggressor nation" in World War II. On a recent visit to China, which suffered at Japan's hands from 1931 to 1945, Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno apologized for that remark. But last week Okuno was at it again, telling the Diet that Japan "had no intention of invading China...
Harvard hung close, however, as the teams skated to a scoreless tie through an uneventful first period. Harvard was the aggressor for the first few minutes but couldn't cash in on any of its opportunites. But it wasn't long before the Tigers took charge...