Word: waved
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...overwhelming wave of protest from Japanese Americans prompted the Japanese television network, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), to postpone the American premiere of the series, originally scheduled for early March on Southern California's Japanese-language TV. Some Japanese Americans see the program as a distortion of themselves and a threat to their own fortunes in the U.S. Most of the criticism has come from the 32,000-member Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest and largest Japanese civil rights group in the U.S. Sanga Moyu portrays a dilemma of divided patriotism that most Japanese Americans say does not exist...
Responsibility for the new wave of killings was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment, a previously unrecognized group of Sikh terrorists that counts moderate Sikhs as well as Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. The Dashmesh, which may be connected with the fanatical Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has vowed to murder one political figure a day until the government lifts a ban imposed late last month on a radical Sikh student organization...
...Journal case follows a recent flurry of SEC investigations into the misuse of confidential or insider information. Such incidents have been provoked in part by the merger wave that has been sweeping over U.S. industry: Reason: advance knowledge of a takeover bid can lead to big profits. Last January, for example, the SEC charged Paul Thayer, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and ex-chairman of the LTV Corp., with revealing to friends acquisition plans and other inside information concerning companies of which he was a director...
...fanaticism that has kept the war at its fevered pitch. The 193-page battlefront primer, titled Book of Souvenirs: Propaganda for the Front and for the War is the work of the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Guards and was intended to embolden the young volunteers in suicidal human-wave attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses, and crude political cartoons depicting a crumbling Star of David or a malevolent Menachem Begin loading a cannon with...
...piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks. As it turned out, the man with the banner just missed being a story. He had painted the 10-ft. cloth to honor his wife's birthday, and waited to wave as she drove past in her pickup truck. She got there while Bleckman was positioning his camera. "One more minute," Bleckman moaned, "and we would have...