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...dealer that he could not import any of its cars. "Please understand our awkward situation with your cordial heart," Nissan wrote the dealer. The Japanese still refuse landing rights in Tokyo to El Al. In retaliation, 7,000 U.S. travelers canceled reservations on Japan Air Lines to the 1970 Osaka world's fair...
...delight in taking this opportunity to extend our sincere felicitations for your midwinter prosperity," said the polite police edict to hotelkeepers in Osaka, Japan. "We also call your attention to a recent case in which a 'pink movie' leaped into the living rooms of some of our citizens from a hotel equipped with a video-tape recording machine. No such leakage will be repeated...
Glorious Fujicolor. More than 500 of Osaka's "avec" hotels-so called because the Japanese check into them with their lovers-feature the videotape extra. "This is an electronic age," explains Seishichi Sawa, manager of one of Osaka's avecs. "It's natural that our patrons would want to be electronically elevated to a romantic mood...
Video-taped pinkies are beginning to face stern competition. In some of Osaka's hotel rooms, video-tape recorder systems have been installed. A flick of a switch near the pillow starts a video-tape camera recording activity on the bed. Afterward, another switch provides instant replays. Rooms so equipped are in steady demand: one couple attempting to sample the pleasures of an avec hotel was ordered by the maid to wait for a call at a nearby coffeehouse. "All the rooms are occupied," she said, "as usual...
...joint patrols to clean up small but persistent insurgent bands along their common border. Thailand and South Viet Nam have formed alliances with Cambodia, albeit extremely uneasy ones, in Phnom-Penh's fight against North Vietnamese invaders. Australia and New Zealand have ceased, as U.S. Consul-General in Osaka Jerome K. Holloway puts it, "to think of themselves as islands somewhere in the English Channel," and are rapidly extending their defense role in Asia...