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...astonishing that even today the U.S. Immigration Service has no uniform policy for handling defections like that of Sailor Medvid. In light of U.S. incompetence at the lowest level, what hope can there be for success at the nation's highest echelons? Heinz Dieter Chiba Montreal Ransoming Relatives...
Some successes are built on old-fashioned ingenuity. One recent example is Ore-Ida Foods, which makes frozen potatoes, little known in Japan until the firm arrived a year ago. Ore-Ida, a division of H.J. Heinz, had conducted surveys that revealed that busy Japanese working women had a hunger for easily prepared frozen foods. The company also showed a willingness to change its ingredients in order to please its new customers. The frozen fries in Tokyo are made with less salt than those sold in the U.S. Reason: the Japanese prefer to sprinkle the seasoning themselves. After only...
Japan came under intense criticism for flooding the U.S. with its products while blocking imports. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We need to retaliate against Japan. They deserve it." Sensing a trade war brewing, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone appeared on Japanese television in April to ask his countrymen for help. Said he: "If each Japanese buys $100 in foreign goods, the increase in imports from that would amount to $12 billion, and foreign countries would be happy...
...Lucy Stone League. (Stone, who married Henry Blackwell in 1855, is believed to be the first American woman to have kept her birth name after marriage.) "If you really think that there's equality, ask him to change his name." Alternatively, says Bonpasse, look at Hillary Rodham and Teresa Heinz, who adopted the names Clinton and Kerry only during their respective husbands' gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. If a wife who doesn't take her husband's name is a political liability, Bonpasse says, it's hard to believe the fight for gender equality has come far enough...
John P. Holdren is the Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government...