Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suddenly out of the information loop on a lot of stuff." One top diplomat talks of the "crazy kooks" in the Pentagon who in his view are putting too much emphasis on military moves. Any such kooks do not include the Joint Chiefs, who have made it plain that they are concerned about increased military involvement in the region. Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been widely regarded as the Administration's intellectual guru on Latin American policy. She has argued long, hard and convincingly within Administration councils that the loss of Central America to Communist revolutionary...
...Salvadoran military did not see things that way. Says a senior U.S. military officer: "By our standards, the Salvadoran army is just plain bad." That criticism does not extend to ordinary Salvadoran soldiers, whom a U.S. expert describes as "physically hard, readymade soldiers who like to be told what to do." But, says the expert, "the officer corps is bewildered. There are so many things wrong, you don't know where to start to fix them...
...most striking feature of this system of bargaining is the huge amount of time it consumes. "They can carry on negotiations until you're just plain tired of it," says Bernard Appel, an executive vice president of the Radio Shack division of Tandy Corp., which annually does more than $200 million worth of business with Japan. In Australia, Attorney Paul Davis offers clients a simple rule of thumb: allow five times as long as usual when doing business in Japan...
...winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. Into a chunky, white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konnichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow...
Michisada-san was waiting in the big hot communal bath, and we soaked together with a grower of mulberry leaves and watched through a somewhat steamy window the fertile plain. "Eat all your food this morning," Michisada-san said. "Especially the egg. It makes for sexual energy in the middle of man." He pointed to his middle parts and laughed...