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Talk about empty gestures. Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally...
Education was a high priority for his parents, both graduates of Howard University. His ability to glide effortlessly between different worlds was enhanced when he began taking the bus from Harlem to the Upper East Side to attend white schools. "When I was young," he says, "making white friends was no problem." At Middlebury he helped pay for his education by joining ROTC...
...trading partners seem to share the magnanimity -- and pragmatism -- of incoming U.S. President George Bush. While a Navy bomber pilot, he was shot down over the Pacific by Japanese gunners, but he professes to hold no grudge. Bush was among the first Western leaders to announce he will attend Hirohito's funeral. To those who objected, Bush explained, "What I'm symbolizing is not the past, but the present and future, by going there." The Japanese, who have chronicled the debates abroad, welcomed the American decision...
...number of stateside universities are bringing American-style education to Japan. In 1982 Temple University became the first U.S. school to establish a branch campus in Japan. In a new nine-story Tokyo building financed by a separate Japanese board, some 1,600 Japanese students attend classes taught in English by Temple professors. Last fall Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business followed suit with Japan's first-ever English-language M.B.A. program. More than 40 other institutions, including Texas A & M and M.I.T., are negotiating similar deals. "The Japanese lack preparedness for globalization," says Chikara Higashi, president of Temple...
...scandal looms as Bonn admits there is truth in U. S. charges. -- Should the U. S. pressure Israel to join Middle East peace talks? The leaders of Egypt and Jordan think so. -- Japan mourns the death of Emperor Hirohito. But a flap over who will attend his funeral suggests that some World War II wounds are not fully healed...