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According to Christopher Dowswell, the director of communications at the Sasakawa Africa Association, Borlaug crossed high yield tall wheats with much shorter Japanese wheats to develop a plant which produced substanitally more grain...
Borlaug divides his time between Mexico, where he is a senior consultant at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; Texas, where he is a Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A&M; and Africa, where he is president of the Sasakawa Africa Association...
That view sat well with Ryoichi Sasakawa, 81, famous in Japan as a philanthropist and longtime prewar supporter of conservative causes, an accused war criminal who spent three years in jail after World War II, and a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by, among other things, staging hydroplane races on which eager Japanese bettors could wager. Sasakawa disclosed that he had sponsored the salvage ship Teno and its team of divers at a cost of $13.6 million. The ingots and whatever else was found were his, said Sasakawa, who estimated that treasure worth no less than $36 billion was aboard...
With that, Sasakawa unveiled a patriotic proposal: he would surrender the entire treasure to the Soviet Union in exchange for a group of islands off Hokkaido that the Soviets seized from Japan after World War II and have steadfastly refused to return. Promised Sasakawa, with a chuckle: "I'm ready to talk with whomever Brezhnev-san might send over to my office...
...Regency Motor Lodge and plans to spend $30 million on renovations and a casino that will be 50% larger than Resorts International's. The gamblers' chips may be down by early next year. Japanese Restaurant Tycoon Rocky Aoki, president of the Benihana chain, and Financier Takashi Sasakawa have leased the old Shelburne Hotel for more than $1 million a year and are rushing to remodel it into a casino by spring. Further behind is Bally Manufacturing, which has leased a baroque landmark, the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel. The company wants to tear it down, despite its entry...