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...clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods and capital. These new problems confuse and disturb the Japanese. Kiichi Miyazawa, a leading economist, sums up the mood: "For years, our people learned to cope with poverty. We do not yet know how to cope with plentifulness...
...terrible in retrospect than the blunders that led up to it-not only at Versailles but during the deadly political charade that immediately preceded 1939. Neville Chamberlain tap-tapping to Munich with his umbrella, Hitler screaming hatred from peaceful Berchtesgaden-these cliché figures still have a power to disturb that few living villains can match...
...California, the state legislature is digging out from a blizzard of 100 bills, many of them originally introduced for political mileage rather then passage. A legislative committee has winnowed those bills to twelve proposed laws and resolutions. If enacted, as expected, the measures will make it a misdemeanor to disturb the peace of any campus, command additional campus disciplinary action against convicted students, cancel their state financial aid for two years, and require all public campuses to develop specific codes of student behavior. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller has vetoed three stringent bills as "premature," including one that...
...Does it disturb you that the American public, from having been 99% pro-Israel and enormously enthusiastic about the results of the June war, now seems slightly vexed with Israel...
Hello. Is this the Massachusetts Governor's office? I'd like to speak to Francis Sargent, please. This is the FBI. That's right. Federal. Bureau. Of. Investigation. Good evening, Governor. Awfully sorry to disturb you, but we're running a security check. The President has appointed an acquaintance of yours to make a study of Latin American affairs. Well, we wondered if you could vouch for this man's character. I mean, does he drink a lot, would you buy a used car from him-that sort of thing? After all, when it comes...