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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...
...crisis has forced a measure of reform. A limited free-market system is now in place, permitting farmers and fishermen to sell off surplus food for profit. As a result, one industrious vegetable grower in the North earns five times as much as her office-worker son in Hanoi. In 1983 Viet Nam managed to feed itself for the first time in years. Though owning pigs is illegal in Hanoi, many of the capital's residents raise swine with loving care; a single butchered porker can bring in as much as a well-paid salaried worker earns in a year...
...those opposing greyhound use argue that it is inhumane, that researchers sometimes acquire research animals by questionable means, and that surplus greyhounds should be used as house pets, said Elizabeth B. Stengel, a legislative analyst at Boston University Medical School...
...research committee is prostituting the surplus-dog situation," said Aaron Medlock, a member of the New England Anti Vivisection Society, a group of citizens concerned with animal rights...
Gerrity said the roughly $140 million budget, which requires final approval from the seven-man governing Corporation, is expected to post a $60,000 surplus Geoffrey H. Simon contributed to the reporting of this article...