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Those moves set a favorable tone for the Nakasone visit. They also helped the Administration fend off criticism of Japanese policy emanating from Congress as well as from many business and labor leaders. Even as Nakasone was speeding along Pennsylvania Avenue on his way to the White House, President Reagan was receiving a delegation of U.S. industrialists and union officials, who asked him to take a firm stand with the Japanese Prime Minister. "The mood in the U.S. is to get tough with Japan," said Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Federation, whose members are upset about the protracted...
...undergraduates and most graduate dining halls will close after lunch on Saturday, and will reopen for dinner January 2, 1983, undergraduates who remain will have to fend for themselves...
...life in the rain forest wasn't easy. Although the monkey's were shy at first, they grew bolder as they became used to the men to the point where Young often had to fend off Curious Georges from his equipment...
...number more than 200,000, and they have now been scattered all over the country." But Western experts suspect that the problem is more serious. Part of the reason that the leaders are publicly browbeating the U.S. over Taiwan is to prove their patriotism to party colleagues and to fend off the charge that they have let the U.S. push China around...
...final Husky tally, netted with just 15 seconds remaining in the game, was pushed into a virtually undefended Harvard goal. With time running out and her team needing a score to tie the match, Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey brought her defense into the attack, leaving netminder Juliet Lamont to fend for herself...