Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with U.S. troops at a field kitchen in South Korea's Demilitarized Zone. They were entertained at a tea ceremony and a yabusame exhibition of mounted archery by riders arrayed in samurai costume. The President essayed a line in the Japanese language during a speech to the Tokyo Diet; First Lady Nancy Reagan visited a Japanese grade school and delighted the youngsters by scrawling the Japanese character for "friend...
Politically, the major event of the trip was an address by Reagan to the Japanese Diet, an honor no previous U.S. President had been accorded. Reagan concentrated on themes of alliance and peace. The U.S. and Japan "can become a powerful partnership for good," he declared. Speaking of arms control, the President of the only nation ever to use atom bombs in war told the elected representatives of the people on whom the bombs were dropped that "a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought. The only value in possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure...
...Japanese concerns. As Nakasone reminded him in private, Tokyo fears that a U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreement to limit nuclear missiles in Europe might result in the shift of some Soviet missiles to the Far East, where they could menace Japan. Reagan's response, in his speech to the Diet: "We must not and we will not accept any agreement that transfers the threat of longer-range nuclear missiles from Europe to Asia." Also, while warning against trade protectionism in both countries, Reagan strongly condemned a "domestic content" bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives before he left Washington that...
...week's end many members of the Diet were already heading for their home districts, convinced that Nakasone now had no other choice but to dissolve parliament and call for new elections. For the moment, Nakasone has good reason to put off announcing his decision. With Reagan coming to town, the Japanese leader clearly hopes that his success as an international statesman will overshadow his continuing troubles with the Shadow Shogun...
...maintain their autonomy of lupine identity--they're not vested with comforting little anthropomorphic traits that would make them seem at home mowing our neighbors' lawn. In fact, it is Mowat who consistently tries to come closer to the wolves' style of life, as his attempt to approximate their diet (mice) and territory-marking habits illustrate. These two comical and slightly disgusting episodes grow out of the film's deeply serious message, that it is not for us to quantify and tame nature, but simply to live in it and marvel...