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Traditionally, a public servant's private life is ignored in Japan, but the Sunday Mainichi's editor in chief, Shuntaro Torigoe, argued that "the time has come to question Japanese politicians' illicit relations with women." Questioned by legislators, Uno said, "I'd rather refrain from commenting on such matters in public...
...Carbon on Captain Planet. Producer Paul Witt (Golden Girls) is developing a three-hour all-star "practical guide to saving the planet"; Witt hopes all three networks will air it simultaneously. In September a medley of pop stars will shoot Yakety Yak, a music video about recycling. Its refrain: "Yakety yak, take it back...
...Harvard, President Derek C. Bok yesterday organized a letter from presidents of 15 leading American universities condemning last weekend's student massacres in Beijing. Addressed to the chair of China's State Education Commission, the letter called on Chinese officials "to cease this violence and to refrain from sending troops into centers of learning which could only result in more bloodshed...
...Dean A.C. Hanford requested that students refrain from additional shenanigans, and students, still chuckling at the whole affair, kept out of further trouble with the councillors...
Repeating the poem's refrain, "in London wherethe sun sinks low," she said, "This decade hastruly been a decade that can make the sun sink lowin the London of our time...