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...with allies lacks the theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well, all the more reason to let friends know they do not have to stir up trouble to win the attention...
...deal was first mentioned last February, the Iranian government immediately warned that if the planes were delivered and its oil installations were seriously damaged, Iran would prevent any ships from entering or leaving the gulf (see map). Such a maneuver would have far-reaching consequences. Twenty percent of the non-Communist world's oil supplies pass through the 40-to-60-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. More than 40% of Western Europe's oil imports and 13% of U.S. oil comes from the gulf, while Japan depends on the region for over 60% of its supply...
...lack, or refuse to give, comparative figures. One knows, however, that the average age of the 2,978 new members has fallen sharply, as Deng wished. Its composition is remarkable: women, rare in Chinese gatherings, number 632, or 21%; non-Communist Party members make up 37%; industrial managers, intellectuals, engineers count out at 41%; army delegates total only...
...resistance to jet lag. Prime Minister Nakasone has displayed a newly extraverted international style for a Japanese leader. He has, among other things, awakened what is for the Japanese the painful subject of their rearming, or at any rate contributing a greater share to the defense of the non-Communist world...
Japan is not unusually dependent on exports. The country ships out only 13% of its gross national product, while Britain exports 20.5%, West Germany 26.7% and Canada 29%. Among the major non-Communist industrial countries, only the U.S. exports less of its G.N.P.: 6.9%. For most Japanese companies, the biggest sales and greatest competitive challenges come in the domestic marketplace. Hitachi, Japan's largest manufacturer of electronic goods, exports only 27% of its production...