Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesse L. Birnbaum. Birnbaum brings 22 years' experience to his new post, including stints as senior editor in New York and European cultural correspondent based in London. Working with him as associate editor and senior writer will be Curtis Prendergast, a veteran chief of TIME'S Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg and London News bureaus. David B. Tinnin joins the new staff from his post as a correspondent in our Europe bureau, and Priscilla B. Badger becomes head reporter-researcher. In New York, R. Edward Jackson, a former World writer, Rome bureau chief and deputy chief of correspondents, will serve...
...Also, the character of Japan has for the moment stymied this country's top statesmen. Japan has not yet conceived a complete global policy. Thus those marvelous philosophical evenings mulling over the condition and future of civilization, which Kissinger found so warming in Peking, cannot be had in Tokyo. When Washington's international planners have turned to Europe, they have found up until fairly recently a collection of individual states mostly preoccupied with their internal problems and their relations with immediate neighbors-and not all that interested in global strategies...
...days ago Kissinger guardedly reported on his Asian conferences, and his concern about letting the news out was apparent. When asked what he had told the Japanese, he chuckled, "Three days after leaving Tokyo there can be almost nothing left to reveal that is not already in the Japanese press." Well, maybe that is bad, but maybe not. There are some people left who believe that this is the way a free society should work...
...more of an advance than the Administration had expected when Kissinger set out on his tour, which included talks with Communist leaders in Hanoi, conversations with Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Peking, and a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Delighted by what he called the decision "to accelerate the normalization of relations" between the U.S. and China, Kissinger said the U.S. representative to Peking will be named within a month. Although he will not have the rank of ambassador, Kissinger indicated that the importance Washington places on the post...
...metal, since the value of the dollar is no longer tied to gold. But as a barometer of speculative sentiment the gold market was clearly registering a landslide vote of no confidence in the dollar. The only major exchange market that was quiet throughout the week was Tokyo, where bids and offers for dollars were readily available at a fairly stable price...