Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worldwide stagflation, protectionism is rising again. Prime example: the European Community, worried about the protectionist demands generated by its growing trade deficit with Japan, has asked the Japanese to restrain certain sensitive exports. Carter is expected to urge a revitalization of worldwide tariff-cutting talks that officially began in Tokyo in 1973 but have so far accomplished nothing...
...first words to me were, "I am suffering from a sciatica brought on by an auto collision that I do not think was accidental, and from an anxiety neurosis." I said that was hardly surprising. Exactly one year before he had been kidnapped by the Korean CIA from a Tokyo hotel, and kept blind-folded and drugged until he finally came to, a prisoner in Seoul. He too is serving an eight year jail sentence, and he is likely to die in jail unless released soon, for he needs careful medical attention...
...service, providing foreign exchange that will make a better life for all Koreans. Those sent to Japan are issued passports stamped "Artistic Delegation" by the ROK Ministry of Education. On April 12, 1973 the Minister of Education Min Kwan-sik, in a speech at a Korean high school in Tokyo, praised "the laudable patriotic sentiments of the large number of South Korean kisaeng and nightclub hostesses who have come to Japan and are working day and night selling their cunts for the nation." (Ampo: Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, Tokyo, April-Sept. 1976, p.9). (The vulgarism is at least as shocking...
Less than 72 hours after he took his office, Vice President Walter Mondale was off on a ten-day 22,000-mile tour that would whisk him to half a dozen European capitals and back across the Arctic icecap to Tokyo. His mission: to promise that the new Administration would work to strengthen economic and military ties with its chief allies. On board Air Force Two was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His report...
...three skaters in the finals will represent the United States in the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo, March...