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...incidents of illegal Japanese business practices are having a strong impact in Tokyo. Said Kinji Yajima, professor emeritus of the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Our mercantile image has once again been tarnished. We Japanese are now being regarded as a scheming bunch of villains around the U.S. It will take years for us to improve our image to what it had been before Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Mitsui were caught." The land where saving face is all important is now worried about losing face...
...weeks ago, the Senate with great sanctimony repealed the tax break and restored the $3,000 deduction limit. Unwilling to endure the public's wrath alone, the House reluctantly followed suit. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte sneered at the Senate: "You got a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the big bucks. They can be big statesmen because they can collect those big honoraria." Utah Senator Jake Garn gibed that House members were "just as gutless" for retreating on their tax deductions...
Finally the Stones returned. They cut down, new wave-style, on Some Girls, stayed spare on Emotional Rescue and blasted back into the past with Tattoo You, certainly the best rock and roll album ever put out by a bunch of guys in their forties. They are now back to where they started, reviving Eddie Cochran and Smokey Robinson on Still Life and shamelessly churning through "Under My Thumb" and "Let's Spend the Night Together" while millions upon millions bellow their approval. In their latest incarnation as rock archivists, the Stones are once again leading the U.S. back...
...former Georgetown University government professor assailed U.S. policymakers for their "persistent ineptitude in international relations that has persisted through several decades, several Administrations." The U.S., she charged, was guilty of "stumbling from issue to issue almost on a Mad Hatter basis." Added Kirkpatrick: "We simply have behaved like a bunch of amateurs, in my opinion...
...really learning the rules, we have often behaved like a bunch of amateurs in the U.N. Unless we approach the U.N. as professionals-professionals at its politics-we won't ever know whether the U.N. could be made a hospitable place for the American national interest...