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Several simmering economic disputes between the U.S. and Japan came to a boil last week. In one case, the White House had threatened to impose trade sanctions against Japan if it did nothing to open up its construction business to American companies by March 30. Before the deadline arrived, though, Tokyo agreed to give U.S. companies the same chance as their Japanese competitors to bid on 14 public works projects, valued at $17 billion. But the Japanese government did not guarantee American firms any share of the construction work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Tough Talks With Tokyo | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Head, legs and tail should be singed. Take the meat (before being put in the pot). Bring water to a boil. Add fat. Onions, samidu, leeks, garlic, some blood, some fresh cheese, the whole beaten together. Add an equal amount of plain suhutinnu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mesopotamian Menus Make Elis Salivate | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...Gulfport, Miss. Jim Vandenberg, manager of the Catfish Shak restaurant, pours the last quart of pickle relish into the industrial-size tub of tartar sauce for the catfish later that morning in Biloxi. The Bush campaign originally wanted a crayfish boil, but wiser heads counseled that crayfish are a Louisiana dish; catfish are regarded as Mississippian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of a Political Machine | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...stilts above the black waters of a sewage canal. Flies buzz around empty tin cans and wastepaper in the water below, as Happy Landers catwalk across the planks that lead from shack to shack. Inside cramped quarters, men play cards or sleep on chairs padded with rags; women boil rice on mottled clay stoves. Everywhere children frolic, playing tag and splashing around where the stream empties into Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Where Life Is Balanced on Stilts | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...angry Palestinian uprising continued to boil over in the West Bank and Gaza last week, the Israeli army tightened press access to the turbulent refugee camps. That did not stop TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Johanna McGeary from crawling through a knee-high hole in the wall to interview residents in a camp. That kind of dogged pursuit is only one of the journalistic skills required to cover the bloody conflict in the Israeli-occupied territories. Besides confronting tear gas, rocks, bullets and Israeli press restrictions, reporters face the daunting logistical problem of following what McGeary describes as a "war without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jan. 25, 1988 | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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