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...word for it in Japanese is ayamachi, diplomatic argot for a grave mistake, even a sin. Last week none other than Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan, committed a world-class ayamachi when he told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party, "So high is the level of education in our country that Japan's is an intelligent society. Our average score is much higher than those of countries like the U.S. There are many blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in America. In consequence the average score over there is exceedingly...
Referring to the FBI's arrest in August of a Soviet employee of the United Nations accused of spying for the Kremlin, Reagan said: "Misusing the United Nations for purposes of espionage does a grave disservice to this organization. The world expects better...
...disability. But this approach would give My Father, My Son a melodramatic unity it neither has nor needs. The strength of the book resides in its unassuming format, an album of family voices (father, son, wife and mother) that describe without self-pity or too much self-pleading the grave misfortune that has overtaken them...
...accountant who was not a known leftist, was also taken half-dressed from his home and killed. The government denied any role in the abduction-murders. About 600 people, many of them journalists, gathered in a cemetery in Santiago last Wednesday to accompany Carrasco's funeral cortege to his grave. Police dispersed them with tear gas and water cannon...
...such people, the only peaceful solution to the Middle East problem is a peace of the grave, a Zionist grave. Any settlement short of that will leave the terrorists unappeased. It will not solve the terrorists' problem. It thus does not solve the terrorism problem...