Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep. The chesty Belgian-Rhenish geldings, however, have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake, all 16 of the current crew have been banished to the piney slopes of lower Bavaria to haul timber...
...village outside Tokyo, a German Jesuit priest builds a Zen monastery -with the blessing of the Vatican. Two Canadian Protestants arrive in the Black African enclave of Swaziland to set up a 100,000-watt radio transmitter. Farther north in Tanzania, Maryknoll priests and nuns work side by side in the fields with peasants, then help train native leaders for the new communal villages of President Julius Nyerere's socialist state. Wycliffe Bible Translators in South Viet Nam, who lived in Montagnard villages well before American G.I.s came, produce nine new written languages from the native dialects, with more...
...Speculation rises in (Vientiane, Saigon, Tokyo, Paris, London, Washington, Cambridge) that South Vietnamese forces have invaded Laos with American support at the express invitation of the pre-eminent clique of right-wing Laotian generals, against the wishes of neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma...
Consumer Champion Ralph Nader may not seem the most likely hero for a country that is sometimes referred to as Japan, Inc. But during a five-day visit that ended last week, he proved to be just about the most popular American guest since Babe Ruth. Invited by the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Nader was lionized wherever he went. In return he made front-page news for his hosts. He lectured to S.R.O. crowds and held a sharp televised debate with a vice president of New Japan Steel on the subject of corporate spending to control pollution. He declared that...
Many foreign countries began to discover environmental problems. Russia, Sweden and New Zealand banned DDT. The Japanese in particular were enraged by the effects of forced-draft industrialization on their lovely country. After 48 schoolchildren were felled by photochemical smog in Tokyo last summer, kogai (environmental disruption) became the nation's top issue. Last week Japan's Diet responded by enacting 14 tough new laws aimed at sending big polluters to prison...