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...been killed in a freak accident in an electrical factory. Until then the Kawamotos had been living in the nearby village of Kuba, where Yoshitaka and his friends swam out long distances in the bay. "They called us 'children of the sea.' " Sailors from German U-boats would wave to the boys from the subs. Kuba was a wonderful town to grow up in, Kawamoto says, a place of frogs and dragonflies. Boys would test their courage in the graveyard at night. "In the daytime we wore uniforms, but at night we put on kimono. In the graveyard...
...human beings. We live here with families. We want a good national defense, and most people believe that a nuclear deterrent is the way to go. For that reason we get satisfaction from our work by contributing to our personal and national safety. It's corny--wave the flag--but it's true." As for those who dropped the Hiroshima bomb, she says that guilt or conscience ought not to be the consideration. "If a policeman shoots a felon, there's no guilt, only regret. You just wish the world had been different...
...that reservoir? Even if a majority of South African whites were prepared to accept Momberg's ideas about power sharing, which they are not at present, it is by no means clear whether it would be acceptable to a majority of blacks. With the current wave of police actions and arrests, a familiar pattern is beginning to emerge. The United Democratic Front, founded in 1983 to organize broad-based multiracial opposition to the government, has revealed some sympathy for the outlawed and exiled African National Congress. One by one, U.D.F. leaders have been put under surveillance or detained, actions that...
More than any other international issue since the Viet Nam War, the question of apartheid has touched off a wave of public protest and voluntary arrest in the U.S. that is far from being confined to Washington. While demonstrators have been taking to the streets of the capital, others across the country have sought to pressure state and local governments, universities and colleges to rid themselves of holdings that involve U.S. and foreign companies with interests in South Africa. Both houses of Congress have called for economic sanctions against Pretoria, and divestiture proposals have come before virtually every state legislature...
...were watching network programming on a typical evening in the summer of 1984, down from 36.6% in '83 and 37.4% in '82. Nielsen figures for this June and July show the decline is continuing. Fearing that reruns are driving viewers away, the networks this summer are launching an unprecedented wave of new programming. Eight series are debuting for limited runs of five to seven weeks, along with an unusual number of first-run TV movies and specials. CBS has taken the surprising step of dumping summer reruns of Dallas and Falcon Crest, two top-rated shows that do poorly...