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...best of times for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Even his vaunted friendship with Ronald Reagan could not prevent the imposition last week of stiff U.S. tariffs against $300 million worth of Japanese exports. The move was in retaliation against Tokyo for selling microchips below cost on world markets and refusing to buy more U.S. semiconductors. At home, where the battle cry "Uriage-zei funsai!" (Smash the sales tax!) has been raised since February, Nakasone's proposed tax reforms, which include a new 5% sales tax, have won him few friends. Last week the Prime Minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
...spoken Mississippian with 18 years in the Detroit school system, four of them as principal of another problem high school, had a nickname -- "Mean Joe Greene," after the Hall of Fame pro-football star. He showed right away that he was prepared to live up to it. Among the stiff rules he began enforcing: three unexcused absences would mean suspension, each subsequent truancy would mean another suspension, and after three suspensions, a student would be transferred out of Redford. "I've heard a lot about Redford, basically all bad," he told the students. "We're going to try to change...
...play focuses on two groups in a segregated waiting area of Savannah's train depot. On one bench sit The Marshalls, a stiff and respectable Black family--Mother (Erika Dilday), Father (Mark Awobuluyi) and teenage daughter Bridget (Elizabeth Wint). Two lower-class "white boys," Jackie Saunders (Steve Barr) and Benny Jones (Scott Chavez), eye them from across the bare stage, whispering and wondering "what it's like to live like them...
...square necks and blue piping, and berets with fluffy red pompoms. They looked lost. Next were the petty officers, slightly less visible in summer whites but still dead ringers for Parisian pharmacists. Finally and thrillingly came the Captain and his senior officers in full dress uniforms complete with immaculate stiff shirts and white ties, striding down the middle of the street with beautiful women on their arms. They might have been reclaiming the French Quarter. Later that week we heard the Captain being interviewed on a French language radio station. He sounded sutably Gallic and urbane but slightly bored...
...forced to miss three weeks of the season. The Pats don't have to shop around for another split end; they just call up a player from their Boston College farm team to replace him. Same thing for basketball. Bill Walton gets hurt? No need to invent a stiff like Greg Kite--the Celtics just call up Rony Seikaly from the Big East League and have him fill in for a few games. Then send him back to Syracuse when Walton recovers...