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These exhortations were compiled by top-ranking police officers of Saitama prefecture, ten miles north of Tokyo. The sex directives are part of a 45-page code of conduct issued to 6,840 members of the Saitama police force. The handbook, which also includes strictures against drinking and bribe taking, was prompted by the rising crime rate among police in Japan. Following the rape-murder of a college student by a bachelor cop last year, one Tokyo newspaper sagely observed that despite the police force's proud record of professionalism, "under the uniform there is nothing but naked flesh...
Though the new code frowns on promiscuity, it also concedes the difficulty of continence. "When you try to excessively control sex, you might end up touching off an explosion," it explains. Masturbation, the handbook says, is "the safest way" to relieve sexual tensions and certainly preferable to dalliance with prostitutes. Reason: "You might even be blackmailed into marrying such a girl...
Information on the availability of refunds for overlapping charges is not published in the HUGHP health plan or in the student information handbook...
...HAMPSHIRE GROUP--a self-described collective of five professors and eight students--concludes with a rather grim caveat: "There is only one thing which is certain about improbable events. Sooner or later they happen." As a handbook for anyone concerned with or morbidly fascinated by the prospects of nuclear power, Meltdown at Montague hits the mark. It is a fine example of well-reasoned literature in a field given to hysteria on all sides; it is the kind of book the anti-nuke movement needs...
...culture, Authors Gusztaá Gecse and Henrik Horváth announce that their goal is to explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabadság, was that knowing the Bible "can in fact strengthen official ideology." The editorial did not explain how, but its author...