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...future relations with the U.S.: The first thing I learned from the Americans [after the war] was humanism, the fact that American soldiers had a deeply held belief in humanism beyond the battlefield toward their former foes, civilian or military. The second was their businesslike attitude and their efficiency. America was Japan's mentor or teacher. But of late the student has been showing signs of excelling the teacher, and the teacher might be getting a little jealous of the student's achievements. The student hopes the teacher will progress further and keep abreast or stay ahead...
...scene wasn't a battlefield, and the desperation move didn't work as the Harvard men's basketball team continued to advance on its way to a 67-59 bombing of the U.S. Military Academy last night before a reading-period gathering of 200 at Briggs Athletic Center...
...During the 1970s, U.S. computer manufacturers complacently felt that they were somehow immune from the Japanese combination of engineering and salesmanship that kept gnawing at U.S. auto, steel and appliance industries. One reason was that the Japanese were developing their large domestic market. When they belatedly entered the U.S. battlefield, they concentrated not on selling whole systems but on particular sectors?with dramatic results. In low-speed printers using what is known as the dot-matrix method the Japanese had only a 6% share of the market in 1980; in 1982, they provided half the 500,000 such printers sold...
...latest battlefield in the long, murderous war between Iran and Iraq is a 50-mile front from Dezful in Iran across the border to the Iraqi town of Amara. There, beginning on Nov. 1, an Iranian force of about 20,000, mostly fanatical Islamic Guard units and including some basij, or groups of teen-age zealots, staged a new offensive. Attacking at night to neutralize Iraq's overwhelming air superiority, and sticking to the high, steep terrain that favors Iranian manpower over Iraqi firepower, they claim to have captured 210 sq. mi. of territory, killing 6,100 Iraqi defenders...
...Indian camps. Or the view of the Little Big Horn, where he and some of his platoon would ride from Fort Custer to pick over the site, for holiday and to bury pieces of bone and harness and indulge in the traditional recreation of soldiers visiting an old battlefield: to re-fight the engagement...