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...private company, signed a new contract to buy 10,000 telephones from ITT. Nonetheless, many American telecommunications executives considered these gestures to be mere tokens. Whenever Japan unveils a program to boost imports, many foreign businessmen get a feeling of seeing an I Love Lucy rerun for the tenth time. Nakasone's new plan is the sixth trade- liberalization package announced since 1981. Yet Japan's imports have decreased by nearly 5% in the past three years, and booming exports have more than doubled its annual trade surplus, from $20 billion to $44 billion. In many cases, government initiatives...
...alumnus of the Class of 1969, I have seen little change in Harvard's approach to the divestment issue over sixteen years. At our tenth reunion, my class officially voted to support divestment and deplored the "intransigence" of the Harvard Corporation on the issue. At our fifteenth reunion, we voted to reaffirm this position. Unless current members of the Harvard community can bring sufficient pressure to bear on President Bok and the Corporation, we may be reaffirming it again at our twentieth--if the racist government of South Africa has not fallen by that time. Jonathan M. Harris...
...tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon is a vastly more complex occasion. The U.S. lost the war, although technically, of course, the country was out of it by the time of the final collapse. But the loss itself was not as traumatic (for Americans, anyway) as the way that the war was fought, the way it was perceived, and peculiarly hated. The struggle was waged, savagely, in Southeast Asia. But it was also fought in America, in American institutions, in the American streets and, above all, in the American conscience...
Soon, however, the U.S.S.R. may have its own generation of computer kids. The Kremlin has decreed that in September computer classes will begin "on a large scale" for the 8 million ninth- and tenth-grade students in the Soviet Union's 60,000 high schools. Said a statement issued by the Politburo: "All- round and profound mastering by young people of computers must become an important factor in speeding up the scientific and technological progress in the country." While computers are widespread in American high schools, most Soviet students have no chance to learn about the machines until college...
...from the U.S.S.R. & Other Plays, Vladimir Nabokov -- Men and Angels, Mary Gordon -- Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis -- The Tenth Man, Graham Greene -- This Real Night, Rebecca West...