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...Takeshita handed out $6 billion for 42 Chinese development projects over the six-year period from 1990 through 1995, almost doubling his country's aid to the mainland regime. In return, the Chinese government awarded Japan an investment-protection agreement that gives Japanese investors the same tax status and other benefits enjoyed by Chinese companies...
...great many men joined the National Guard. Since their units generally remained in the U.S., Guardsmen were able to fulfill their military obligation with only the slimmest chance of seeing combat. Guard members were required to undergo six months of basic training and then provide part-time service, mostly on weekends, for the rest of their six-year tour. Though the Joint Chiefs of Staff had recommended in the early 1960s that the Guard be sent to Viet Nam, Army Guard units were assigned combat duty only in 1968-69. No more than 20 of the nation's approximately...
...daughter to a nursing home 180 miles away. In 1985, after a yearlong legal battle over custody and visitation rights, the court awarded Sharon's father full guardianship. The Kowalskis' lawyer maintains that Thompson's visits left Sharon depressed. Moreover, he argues that Sharon has the mind of a six-year- old and cannot express her wishes reliably. Thompson denies these claims and points to Sharon's typewritten responses to a neutral questioner indicating her desire to return to St. Cloud and have Karen as a guardian...
When he begins his six-year term on Dec. 1, Salinas will have to navigate carefully between the demands of the P.R.I. old guard to maintain the party's hegemony and his own vision of a more democratic future. Throughout the campaign, there were indications that many P.R.I. stalwarts intended to fight any attempt by Salinas to open the system to a vigorous exchange of ideas. Much like the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Salinas knows that political liberalization is imperative if he is to succeed in restructuring a debt- ridden, slow-growth economy. But before Salinas can begin...
...either live with us or who have lived before us. Time and again, Coles uses his three or four pages to stop and marvel at the courage or faith or humanity of those he has come into contact with, be it Dorothy Day, a sharecropper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, or a six-year old Black child who went to class despite racist taunts as the New Orleans public schools were being integrated...