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Reagan's speech was enthusiastically received, with Diet members interrupting 18 times with applause. His pronunciation drew some smiles when he ventured a line in Japanese: "Japanese-American friendship is forever." Communist depu ties boycotted the session, but their empty seats only underscored the impotence of the left in present-day Japan. A fist-shaking demonstration by more than 1,000 protesters near Haneda Airport as the Reagans were about to arrive was a pale shadow of the mass snake-dancing "demos" the Japanese left used to stage in the 1960s and early '70s; this time, the marching...
...Recovery. While the Deputies' ballots arrested the fall of the franc last week, they failed to give it an upward trend because: One. The "sales tax" passed the Chamber by a vote of only 227 to 103?that is, with 190 abstentions, thereby indicating that the Depu- ties are not sincerely behind it. Two. These "benevalent absten- tions" were due only in part to the fear which the Deputies felt for the franc. The Radicals, especially the Socialists, who abstained did so at a price: the reluctant inclusion by the Government in the budget bill as finally passed of clauses...
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