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...baseball and besuboru apparently hasn't gone far enough to let an American umpire in Japan. Those who thought that possible underestimated how difficult it would be to penetrate the Japanese game, which is run by a cabal of players and managers as protectively as the Finance and Trade ministries are captained for the good of the economy. Di Muro's insistence on standing by his strike and ball calls upset the system's harmony--what the Japanese call wa, as besuboru expert Robert Whiting wrote in his 1989 book You Gotta Have...
...Summit, which for the first time includes the economically demolished Russia, will be more than show and tell. On the agenda are some tough issues for Clinton, including debate on NATO expansion and how to integrate Russia more fully in the global economy. The issue of America's ballooning trade deficit with Japan will be taken up immediately, with Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto holding a one-on-one in advance of Friday's kickoff. In a bit of surprising news on the Japanese front, the Administration announced an agreement with Japan that will allow the U.S. greater...
...Summit, which for the first time includes the economically demolished Russia, will be more than show and tell. On the agenda are some tough issues for Clinton, including debate on NATO expansion and how to integrate Russia more fully in the global economy. The issue of America's ballooning trade deficit with Japan will be taken up immediately, with Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto holding a one-on-one in advance of Friday's kickoff. In a bit of surprising news on the Japanese front, the Administration announced an agreement with Japan that will allow the U.S. greater...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, healthy elephants look like millions in lost ivory sales. Not any more. As delegates burst into "God Bless Africa," the U.N. Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow the three countries a one-time sale of 59 tons of stockpiled elephant tusks to Japan. While Africa's elephants no longer teeter on the brink of extinction, environmental "ele-friends" warn that the vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters...
...Dallas-based Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade was somewhat more restrained. "Even if some of them died," says founder J.P. Goodwin, "at least they had a shot at freedom." That's true, says Bruce Coblentz, a professor of wildlife biology at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Coblentz allows that a few of the animals may survive in the wild. But the rest, he says, will just "die a different death than they would have otherwise...