Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign companies that export goods to the U.S., taking sales and jobs from domestic firms. AFL-CIO Lobbyist Ray Denison says Ex-Im has financed a Mexican factory that makes automobile springs that are shipped to the U.S. Recently, Ex-Im lent $75 million to the Bank of Tokyo to finance purchase by Japanese firms of 260,000 bales of U.S. cotton. Critics fear that that loan will worsen American inflation by raising the price of domestic cotton...
Park's current efforts to crack down on what is left of his political opposition center on two trials now taking place in Seoul. The first involves Kim Dae Jung, Park's rival in the 1971 presidential election. Kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel last year by South Korean security agents, Kim, who was later released, is in court to face old charges that he violated provisions of his country's election laws in the 1967 and 1971 campaigns. The trial has infuriated the Japanese-still smarting from the kidnaping-who had been promised that Kim would...
...remarkable movie is the result of an ingenious union of science and cinematography achieved by Dr. Motoyuki Hayashi, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Tokyo's Toho University School of Medicine. Using advanced diagnostic instruments and time-lapse photography, Hayashi spent two years and $55,000 working in the university's laboratories and clinics to produce his masterpiece. His key tool was the culdoscope, invented in 1942 by Dr. Albert Decker, who is now with New York's Fertility Research Foundation. The instrument is a 12-in.-long tube, about the diameter...
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Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 38, kinetic conductor of the Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and Vera Ozawa, 29, former Tokyo fashion model: their first son, second child; in San Francisco...