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When Japanese talk about their country, they cling to cliché. A resource-poor land ... rising from the rubble of World War II ... Japan as number one. Even in the past decade of flounder and drift, the wisdom was always conventional. Increase government spending ... tighten the belts ... no pain no gain...
...Prime Minister?s approval rating plummeted during the crisis. MIDDLE EAST New Challenges For Israelis Thousands of Palestinians attended a symbolic funeral for Wafa Idris, the first woman suicide bomber to strike against Israel. An Israeli man also died in the Jerusalem blast. As Israeli officials considered plans to tighten security measures in the city, scores of military reservists criticized the army?s heavy hand in the Palestinian territories and refused to serve there. AUSTRALIA Return to Sender Asylum seekers at a detention center called off a two-week hunger strike after reassurances that their visa applications would be processed...
...nation's leading accounting hawk, to do the scrubbing and apply the rinses. That gave Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, who was until recently the subject of a federal probe into his campaign finances, a chance to apologize to Levitt, who had pushed unsuccessfully for lawmakers to tighten accounting standards. "Congress did not respond," Torricelli intoned. "We were wrong. You were right...
...Texas, the legislature doesn't meet until 2003, but there's already talk about revising the state's Open Records laws, which make diagrams of dams and water-purification plants publicly available. At least eight states are weighing proposals to tighten rules for obtaining driver's licenses. Some, like Florida, propose having foreign nationals' licenses expire when their visa or work permit does; that would prevent illegals from using licenses as permanent IDs. North Carolina has created a registry of institutions possessing anthrax or other biological agents. And Colorado is likely to abolish a law that requires women to obtain...
...general aviation industry, meanwhile, is circling its Cessnas. Even before the Bishop incident, measures were pending in Congress that would mandate annual psychological tests for the nation's 650,000 licensed pilots; the schools are pushing to tighten only terminal security. Whatever emerges, Bishop's fatal flight may teach aviation schools a new lesson in safety...