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...millions of his countrymen watched and millions of Americans waited, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone appeared on Japanese national television last week with a crucial mission: to prevent an international trade war. In stern tones, he told his audience that the U.S. Congress, incensed by Japan's $37 billion trade surplus with America, was on the verge of erecting steep new barriers to imports. Warning that the free-trade system and even peace and prosperity were in danger, Nakasone made an unprecedented appeal to the Japanese public. "I would like to ask you to buy more foreign goods," he said...
...become conventional wisdom that only a stern anti-Communist such as Richard Nixon could have opened relations with China. It may also be that only a Nixon could have withdrawn U.S. forces from a conflict with a Soviet proxy and accepted a cease-fire that left thousands of Communist insurgents far beyond their legal borders, in place for an eventual onslaught. By the time the 1973 Paris accords were signed, any prudent politician might have had enough doubts about South Viet Nam's survival to start shifting blame to others for having "lost" an ally. Hawks like Nixon assailed doves...
...swiftness of the transition raised expectations in some West European publications that a positive new era was unfolding in the Soviet Union. The German weekly Stern headlined the story of Gorbachev's ascendance with the question A RED KENNEDY? A more ponderous query followed: "Does he have the spirit of Peter the Great, who opened Russia to the West in the 18th century in order to strengthen it?" But not everyone--certainly not government officials and analysts who specialize in Soviet affairs--echoed any such attitude. Said West Germany's Heinz Brahm, a director at the Federal Institute for Eastern...
...sound actors but the women in this cast are its real strength. Both exhibit a greater flexibility of character than their male counterparts. Lisa Peers is excellent both as the stern employer of a governess and as the loud-mouthed attacker of Barr. She can play both an ice queen and a timid heart...
...theocratic state that punished it. Wearing jewelry or playing cards was made illegal. A woman caught in adultery was drowned in the Rhone. A theologian who disputed Calvin was burned at the stake. Yet Calvin's teachings attracted followers from all over Europe, and his disciples spread his stern version of Protestantism to France, Scotland and New England...