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Stalin won outright annexation of parts of eastern Poland; the Poles were compensated with parts of easternmost Germany. In the Far East the Soviets were secretly awarded the Japanese Kurile Islands and the southern part of Sakhalin Island, an arrangement disclosed after Japan's defeat...
Stalin kept only part of the bargain. On Aug. 8, three months after V-E day and only six days before Japan surrendered, the Soviets finally declared war on Tokyo. At almost no cost, Stalin not only got the Japanese islands but also stripped Manchuria of most of its heavy industrial equipment and shipped it back to the Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West...
...move came from liberal legislators who have long opposed U.S. aid to the guerrillas. Said one of them, Wisconsin Congressman David Obey: "Daniel Ortega is a fool and always has been." Despite Bush's initial outburst, the Administration's response otherwise remained low-key. That was due in part to a realization, as a senior Administration official put it, that "there's not the remotest chance Congress will okay the restoration of lethal aid." Congress abolished such assistance in February '88, later approving $49 million for food and medicine...
...American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who began preaching the quality gospel to receptive Japanese industrialists in 1950. During the 1980s, thousands of U.S. companies borrowed the so-called quality-circle concept, in which teams of employees are encouraged to participate actively in monitoring and improving their part of the production process...
...Japanese have now surpassed the Dutch as the second greatest foreign holders of U.S. property. The British are No. 1, yet Japanese investments create the largest public stir, in part because Japan is the greater economic rival -- and in part because some racially insensitive Americans apply different standards to European and Asian investment. Japanese direct investment in U.S. companies and real estate increased from $35.2 billion in 1987 to $53.4 billion last year, a gain of 52%. British investment climbed from $79.7 billion to $101.9 billion over the same period, for a 27.9% increase...