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...already crowded streets of our cities. We throw away our cell phones within a year and replace them with the latest models so that we can show off to our friends. Let's not leave it up to the government or technology to solve environmental issues for us. Makiko Kawamura Urayasu, Japan All Eyes on Iran Peter Beinart's "Stop Obsessing about Iran" [Jan. 29] was unconvincing. Iraq's Shi'ite community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist...
...already crowded streets of our cities. We throw away our cell phones within a year and replace them with the latest model so that we can show off to our friends. Let's not leave it up to the government or technology to solve environmental issues for us. Makiko Kawamura Urayasu, Japan
...Manako. The three-page story describes, in rather boring detail, how the woman had married despite the objections of her parents, yet recently divorced after just one year of marriage. It's all pretty tame, but in addition to the privacy issue, Manako happens to be the daughter of Makiko Tanaka, a former Foreign Minister...
...There is a long history between the Tanaka family and Bungei Shunju, Bunshun's parent publishing company. In 1974 the monthly Bungei Shunju ran an expos? of a bribery scandal that ultimately toppled Kakuei Tanaka, Makiko's father and one of the most influential Prime Ministers in Japanese history. And just two years ago, Shukan Bunshun's special report on alleged fraud by the then Foreign Minister Makiko drove PM Junichiro Koizumi to remove her. (A court threw out charges stemming from the story, which accused Makiko of pocketing her secretary's salary...
...ARRESTED. MUNEO SUZUKI, 54, influential but unpopular Japanese legislator, who for years was a Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight at the Foreign Ministry, for alleged bribery; in Tokyo. Suzuki's power struggle with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka led to her sacking this January, which severely dented the popularity of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Officials allege Suzuki accepted a $40,000 kickback from a Hokkaido logging company. DIED. FRITZ WALTER, 81, captain of the first German football team to win the World Cup (in 1954), an achievement that helped ease Germany's pariah status following World War II; in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Germany...