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...Onion. Wagner also expressed the fear that he might go stale in another four years. With considerable candor, he acknowledged that "perhaps it is time for a change-for me as well as for the city." He confessed: "Some of the more routine duties which were once tolerable enough now became drudgery. While I continued to respond to each day's major challenges, I caught myself feeling that four more years would be four more years of the same thing." Earlier in the week, Wagner had described the demands of the job: "The working hours run from dawn...
Peeling the Onion. A man of severe personal austerity (he drives an aging Dodge, sleeps only five hours a night), Park has as his administration's motto, "Seeing is believing." To that end, he travels frequently through the countryside, sharing rice wine and kimchi-the garlic-laden pickled cabbage of Korea -with farmers who still live and labor much as they did centuries ago. No gladhander, he adopts a professional role in explaining his aims to the people. The current goal: ratification of a Korean-Japanese treaty (TIME, April 2) that would normalize relations between the two antagonistic neighbors...
...reparations, $200 million in longterm, low-interest loans-and the promise of vast new markets that may do much to ease South Korea's 10% unemployment. Yet, to many Koreans who fear Japanese economic domination, the treaty sounds dangerous. "Negotiating with the Japanese is like peeling a green onion," said one Korean recently. "You never know what's there until it's all gone...
Typical was the disclosure that last year's harvest of bread grains was a huge 151.5 million tons compared with 1963's mere 107.5 million. The rustic Khrushchev would have ballyhooed news like that from the golden onion domes. The quiet men of the new regime buried it in a handbook of Soviet statistics that simply appeared-six months later-in Moscow book stores. But if the style in Moscow is different, the substance largely is not. With less flair but more efficiency and cautious consistency, the new masters of Moscow have continued Khrushchev's interdependent program...
...Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then, the evidence of Russia's 126 years in Alaska had dwindled to a few onion-domed churches and a sprinkle of Russian place names...