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...free for civil servants: Nguyen Than Tan, 24, a Foreign Ministry employee, shares a 10-ft. by 12-ft. dormitory room with three other men. Food is subsidized, but rations are meager. Officially, low-level bureaucrats are allowed each day about a pound of rice, an ounce of meat, a few vegetables, a bit of milk, coffee and a couple of cigarettes. In the private street stalls, groceries are abundant but very expensive. There, rice might cost 150 times as much as in the state-run shops...
...enters the minefield of U.S.-Japanese trade relations. In the four decades since World War II, Japan has waged one of the most successful campaigns in the history of commerce, making its consumer products household names throughout the developed world. But American and European salesmen of everything from meat to microchips have complained for years that Japanese markets have been closed to them, even when they offered products superior to those produced locally. That was an annoyance when Japan was struggling to recover economically in the early postwar years. Today, when Japan is on the verge of surpassing the Soviet...
Harvard will have to be prepared to face pitchers of similar caliber-and velocity-in the coming weeks, when the squad gets into the meat of its schedule. Upcoming foes such as Penn and Princeton, who hit town this weekend, promise to place formidable figures on the hill...
...caveats, and with the help of guides and a letter of introduction from Oxford to the local authorities ("a talisman of medieval- looking splendour"), the Englishmen persevere--and suffer as advertised. Insects attack them everywhere ("I covered myself in SAS anti-fungus powder until my erogenous zone looked like meat chunks rolled in flour"), hordes of leeches rush across the jungle floor to greet them, and cicadas, "megaphones built into their bodies," keep up a decibel level "way over the limit allowed in discotheques...
Merola claims that he gained significant evidence against Donovan and the other defendants from a 1979 FBI wiretap on the telephone at Masselli's Bronx meat-packing warehouse. In 1981, after Donovan had faced confirmation by the Senate as Labor Secretary, the FBI advised the lawmakers about his alleged organized crime connections but for some reason did not mention the incriminating wiretap. Nor did the FBI reveal that it was aware, as the Senate considered Donovan's qualifications, that "possibly fraudulent schemes" to hike minority participation in the Schiavone subway work had been disclosed by the recorded conversations. The bureau...