Word: friendships
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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...
...theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well, all the more reason to let friends know they do not have to stir up trouble to win the attention of the U.S. - By George J. Church...
...plays, Yentl is indeed aggressive, exotic, oversize, polarizing. No one is likely to react indifferently to this one-woman band. But as the long, lush picture gains momentum and confidence, it admits the viewer to a beguiling world where emotions can bubble out of low comedy, where familial friendship and carnal love intersect, where the dead exert their tenacious influence on the living, and a folk tale can transform itself into a bittersweet fairy tale. With Yentl, Streisand has gone for the emotional goods-to create a sweeping musical drama out of a tiny romantic triangle-and, miracle of miracles...
...Nancy thought one expression of America's friendship would be to help our two little Korean friends, Kil Woo Lee and Jt Sook Ahn, come over to the States," the president said...
Acquino was not the first foreign democratic leader, dispossessed or excluded from power and politics at home, who was welcomed and supported at Harvard. As somebody who enjoyed the privilege of Beaigno's friendship may i pay tribute to Harvard when harvard honors the late Filipino patriot. This was in the noblest tradition of American democracy and of academic freedom in its universities. Benigno recognized that the Veritas of John Harvard was not just a commitment to the expanding horizons of knowledge but to upholding the torch and democracy round the world. Benigno Acqaino's years at Harvard will...