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...contracted with a California publisher to import 10,000 copies of a grossly prurient quarterly called Trio, which billed itself rather improbably as "a cultural, scientific and sociological publication." Yet even though Nakata had the printers take an air brush to some of the more explicit photographs, Japanese officialdom was outraged. First, customs authorities forced Nakata to have 37 "undesirable" spots in each copy daubed with ink before they would allow the magazine into the country. Then the Tokyo police confiscated the magazine and indicted Nakata on charges that it was "damaging to the sanctity of decent home life...
...communal urban life. Tens of millions of country-born Russians have been converted into citydwellers by industrialization in a generation or less. Many of them remain country folk at heart. To ordinary Russians, the extravagant, arbitrary privileges of their leaders, most powerfully symbolized by the secluded, luxurious villas of officialdom, will matter little so long as they too have a chance for a humbler version of the same pleasures...
More subtly, there are doubts about what will follow the old landlord system. For all their faults, Vietnamese landlords were traditionally a buffer between their tenants and the whims and avarice of Vietnamese officialdom. In some areas, officials seeking kickbacks have forced poor tenants off lands near roads and villages in order to make room for wealthier farmers better able to offer bribes for the choice titles...
...officialdom: "Lindsay and Rockefeller drive more people out of New York than anyone by acting like little schoolboys investigating one another...
...Moscow visit thus rested partly on a common belief in both capitals that a climate of cooperation has been achieved. As Vice President in 1959, Nixon held a famous finger-waving "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev at an American exhibition in Moscow; he was completely snubbed by Soviet officialdom when he visited Moscow as a private citizen in 1967. But shortly after he became President, he talked publicly of wanting to meet Soviet leaders eventually. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko privately discussed the possibility in Washington last year, but agreed that progress on access to Berlin and arms...