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...cheeks. "I'm just sad." The National Police Agency mobilized 15,000 police to patrol the Imperial and Togu palaces. Many flags flew at half-staff; others were adorned with black ribbons. Japan's stock and bond markets, regularly open on Saturday, were closed. Government offices were observing a six-day mourning period, and workers were requested to refrain from festive singing or dancing. Even a major sumo-wrestling tournament was postponed a day...
Arafat's critics, especially in Jerusalem, have grumbled about the "ambiguities" of his concessions. Yet Israel's own position has also been ambiguous over the years. For a decade after the 1967 Six-Day War, a succession of Labor Prime Ministers seemed willing to yield portions of the territory the Israeli army had seized in the West Bank of the Jordan River, . where many Palestinian Arabs live, in exchange for recognition and security. During that period, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization regarded Israel itself as an integral part of the larger territory of "occupied" Palestine that they were sworn...
...Miller Time: After playing four games in nine days--including two on the road--the Crimson has a six-day layoff before trekking to Hartwick this weekend. Harvard and the 'Wick battled to a 1-1 overtime tie at Ohiri Field last season...
Trouble struck the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft soon after it left the Soviet orbiting space station Mir and started on its way home. The cosmonauts had just completed a six-day mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
...secret, in essence, is a labor force that is industrious (a six-day workweek is standard), well educated (literacy rate: 93%), extraordinarily thrifty (savings rate: 35.8%) and modestly paid (average income of manufacturing employees: $409 a month). Parts of this spartan work ethic, which enables South Korea to produce everything from steel to videocassette recorders at some of the world's lowest costs, are beginning to change. In recent months there has been a wave of labor unrest, much of it centered on winning higher wages. Even so, most economists expect South Korea's industrial machine to continue to grow...