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DIED. MICHIO WATANABE, 72, outspoken Japanese politician whose derogatory comments about African Americans set off a furor in the U.S. in 1988; of heart failure; in Tokyo. Watanabe, a leader of the once dominant Liberal Democratic Party, resigned as Foreign Minister in 1993 for health reasons. He didn't leave the stage quietly, setting off protests in South Korea in June by saying that Japan's 1910 takeover of Korea had been done with Korea's consent...
...Hong Konger will probably be satisfied with business as usual, which would be just fine with China. The Chinese are becoming savvy marketers themselves: the Chinese media is moving in to spread Beijing's word, the Bank of China Tower dominates the Hong Kong skyline, and the colony's outspoken South China Morning Post has been conveniently purchased from Rupert Murdoch by a wealthy friend of Beijing...
...follow up her criticisms of China with some heartfelt reflections on the situation of women in America, herself included. She might have admitted she comes from the only industrialized nation that has refused to ratify the 16-year-old U.N. treaty on women's rights, a country where an outspoken woman in public life risks constant revilement...
Richard Marius deserves a vigorous defense against the morally obtuse Martin Peretz ("Marius `Unhired' as Gore Aid," news story, Jul. 21, 1995). I served as a faculty member under Marius for two years; a forthwright and sometimes outspoken intellectual, he has always drawn a steady flow of criticsm, and like all of us, he has his faults. As a colleague of Marius, as a sometime critic of the man, and as a Jew, let me be emphatic: anti-Semitism is not one of those faults...
...least publicly, the Governor has stoutly -- and apparently joyously -- defended his wife. "Rachael has always been what she is, and that's what I love about her," he told reporters. "She is a gutsy, courageous, outspoken person." Some of his constituents took a different view. "She's a disgrace to West Virginia," huffed a woman during a lunch break in Huntington last week. "She should leave her sex life private. Everything she has done is just to draw attention...