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Though she could be huffy, Crouter was never bitter, vengeful or condescending. She emerges from the diary as a slightly remote secular saint, bestowing high-minded affection on all comers. Yamamoto, a wide-eyed guard from Yokohama, was encouraged with his charcoal drawings. A pair of guards who arrived as "fire-breathers from Bataan" were soon rendered "tame and friendly" by the Crouter treatment. She was saddened when Tomibe came to Japanese class and lectured on harakiri. "He is living with the idea and may do it," she wrote. "Is he modern enough to break away, to learn from defeat...
...balance the budget. Connally, of course, provides no details, saying simply he would tell Congress to "balance it" and they would. He has also promised the Japanese that unless they open their markets to more American products, "they'd better be prepared to sit on the docks of Yokohama in their Toyotas watching their Sony televisions, because they aren't going to ship them here...
...what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama...
...huge U.S. trade deficits additionally are kicking up prices by depressing the dollar and making imports costlier. How to reduce that deficit? Cracked Eckstein: "We might do it if we could find a way to close the port of Yokohama for a few months." More to the point, Yale Professor Robert Triffin sees little chance of narrowing the trade gap until "the Administration and Congress make some significant sign that they are doing something about the basic problem of energy." Greenspan agrees, though he believes that the dollar's value will stabilize or rise on world markets because...
Equally inhospitable, at first, were authorities in Taiwan: they put a police cordon around the ship to prevent anyone from getting off. Prospects for the refugees were equally poor at the Yuvali's next port of call, Yokohama, Japan has consistently refused to admit escapees from Indochina unless the United Nations or another country agrees to take the refugees off its hands quickly. Most Asian states will accept them-temporarily-only if there is no other way they can survive...