Word: shintaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deciding how much grain to make available to the U.S.S.R., the Administration must also consider protecting the role of dependable supplier to established and more reliable export buyers. Agriculture sales are the nation's second largest export after machinery. Last week Japan's Agriculture Minister Shintaro Abe signed a three-year pact to buy 14 million tons of U.S. grain and soybeans annually. "We are not like the Russians, who come into the market every three years," declared the Japanese minister. "We buy regularly, and we feel this should be given due consideration by the U.S." India...
...Recurring reports that a monster dwells in the dark waters of Scotland's Loch Ness have long tantalized Western science buffs. Now the Japanese have moved into the act. In hopes of succeeding where the Westerners have failed, an expedition headed by Japanese Novelist-Politician Ishihara Shintaro has set out to track down, photograph and perhaps even trap the legendary beast. The Japanese are not stinting in their efforts. The vanguard of the $500,000 expedition has already arrived on the scene; soon the hunters will begin using such formidable weaponry as a sonar-equipped minisubmarine and tranquilizing guns...