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This year may be criti-cal. With two Japanese playing for the Seattle Mariners - Ichiro and vet-eran star reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki - Japan's pub-lic broadcasting company, nhk, may set a record for the most televised U.S. major league games in a single year. Says veteran sportswriter Kozo Abe, who has covered baseball on both sides of the Pacific: "The Japanese are finally beginning to realize how much better American big league baseball is - in real competition, that is, not goodwill games - in terms of power, speed, technique and depth. That could spell doom for Japan's game...
...shift in mood from Sunday's debate, Democratic candidates criti- till significant for voters, are issues likeeducation and the environment...
...using the police as whipping boys," complained Miami Police Chief Walter E. Headley Jr. "Why shouldn't police departments be stockpiling lethal weapons? Weapons are being stockpiled in Viet Nam, and this is a war too." Houston Police Chief Herman Short called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn't mean anything to anybody if everybody obeyed the law." Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, one of the eleven commissioners, took exception to his colleagues' complaints about the report. "I'll buy it, I stand with it, I fall with...
...play itself was sharply criti- cized. (One scene in the play shows a "typical" democratic election candidate stuffing a ballot box.) Sherman Adams, Driberg reports said it might do serious damage to the cause of democracy in Asia. Ambassadors cabled protests, and John Foster Dulles notified embassies that MRA had no official standing. Vice-President Nixon tried to get the tour stopped...
...roared, "can drink the sea. And if the Mediterranean is not big enough, we will give him the Red Sea as well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador Lucius D. Battle, who had been brazen enough to criti cize Nasser for his recent anti-American posture. Shortly after the U.S. Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, Egyptian mobs burned the $350.000 John F. Kennedy Library in Cairo: last week a private plane carrying two U.S. oil-company employees was shot down near Alexandria by Egyptian MIGs. More ominous...