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Before going there, Reagan met privately at the U.S. embassy with Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki for an hour and ten minutes, and for 90 minutes with Thatcher, who walked over from the British embassy a few hundred feet away. "Hello, Al," Thatcher called to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who was waiting to greet her on the steps. Finally, on Friday afternoon before the Versailles summit, Reagan dropped in at the Hotel de Ville (Paris' city hall) to see Mayor Jacques Chirac, who is also leader of the neo-Gaullists, the strongest opposition party to Mitterrand...
...nice cuppa. "Tractors and Land Rovers have been offered freely to the troops to lug equipment to nearby hills. An 18-year-old boy used his father's tractor to haul gear from the shore. Another boy told the soldiers, "If you want to borrow my Suzuki, go right ahead...
Shapiro, a Zen Buddhist, recalls that "Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said that one should not leave any traces of one's passage." Very much the adherent, Shapiro will no litter on the road on which he runs, but he certainly will muse at length about the remants of the drivers who preceded...
Although the Suzuki government has pledged to chop away at some of the more egregious nontariff barriers, there are thousands of import restrictions that permeate life and society in Japan. Says one Japanese businessman candidly: "Consider the inspector who has been sitting at the dock in Yokohama saying no for 40 years. He is going to find it very hard suddenly to start saying yes just because some politician in Tokyo says it is the new policy...
...other two newcomers, Italy's Spadolini, who had been in office only three weeks, and Japan's Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, deliberately chose to play modest roles. The erudite and usually garrulous Spadolini, like Mitterrand, was outspoken only in assailing high U.S. interest rates, which he claimed had seriously jeopardized Italy's anti-inflation drive. The reticent Suzuki skillfully avoided drawing attention to himself-and thus escaped sharp criticism of his nation's selective, restrictive import policies and its aggressive overseas selling. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister MacEachen explained the reluctance of the conferees...