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Later the President spent hours personally inserting "positive" language into the graduation speech he delivered at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The address was the fourth in a series summing up the conclusions of his Administration's vaunted review of major foreign policy issues. While in his three previous speeches he had voiced stern warnings against being taken in by Soviet peace talk, Bush now praised Gorbachev for "being forthcoming" in negotiations on conventional forces in Europe. He emphasized that "our policy is to seize every -- and I mean every -- opportunity to build a better, more...
...officials hope any final agreement reached with Japan will serve as a model for similar deals with Taiwan and South Korea. But they may resist U.S. pressure. Says T.F. Chen, a Taiwanese marine fisheries official: "We could never allow foreign representatives to board and inspect ((our boats)). We can handle the enforcement ourselves...
...carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look for stronger leadership. Cultural anthropologist Masao Kunihiro says that during a recent lecture tour he found voters "increasingly becoming aware of international affairs"; eventually, he suggests, "they...
...Japanese point out, with some justification, that the trade deficit is as much the fault of America's bad habits as the result of Japan's economic policies. Says former Foreign Minister Saburo Okita: "The Americans should take a second look at themselves. Obviously they cannot go on with runaway spending forever." The U.S. borrowing-and-spending binge, which involves both Government and consumers, has boosted the tide of imports to the U.S. The Japanese also complain that the U.S. has leadership problems of its own. Washington has been sending out conflicting signals because trade policy is shaped and shared...
...member of the house, making her the Progressive Party's spokeswoman. She slashed at purveyors of apartheid, once advising government ministers that they could learn something about their country if they would attend a funeral in a black township, "heavily disguised, of course, as human beings." But she opposed foreign economic sanctions against South Africa, arguing that they hurt blacks and drive whites into a siege mentality...