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...Naohira Amaya, former Japanese Vice Minister for International Affairs, said at the forum that the "closed nature" of his country's market and an undervalued yen had strengthened its trade position in relation to the U.S. and added that American industry has failed to keep pace with Japanese productivity...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Analysts Discuss Shortcomings Of Japan-U.S. Trade Relations | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

Borg's closest call during his championship reign at Wimbledon came in the first round of the 1978 tournament, when towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Victor Amaya had him on the ropes. Amaya led two sets to one and had a 3-1 lead in the fourth set, but Borg came back to win. Says Amaya: "He looked as if he was spaced out, but all of a sudden he came to life. Sometimes he seems to go into limbo, and then he wakes up before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...Julian Ruiz, 87, who was also a Communist. He returned from Soviet exile in 1972 and lives in a Basque village in northern Spain. Four of their six children died in infancy; a son Ruben was killed in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. A surviving daughter, Amaya, is married to a Russian general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: La Pasionaria: An Exile Ends | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates that leads to the gulf. Iraq feared that Iran was attempting to cut off its oil routes from Khor al-Amaya, Iraq's principal oil terminal at the top of the gulf. Iraq broke off diplomatic relations with Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: Moslem v. Moslem | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Playing Rafael's mother with fiery whiplash energy, Dancer Carmen Amaya proudly declares: "When your father met me, he danced until his feet bled. They were bandaged for 15 days." Ever alert to such cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bard in Barcelona | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

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