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- LOST IN TRANSLATION. Sony co-founder Akio Morita
- co-authored The Japan That Can Say No for a Japanese audience,
- but now samizdat English versions are circulating. The authors
- take a dim view of U.S. industry, which can't "turn technology
- into business." Morita blames the tone on his right-wing
- co-author, "who made it sound stronger than it was."
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- IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually
- a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner,
- yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von
- Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime
- Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs
- "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of
- Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption.
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- UNLIMITED MILEAGE. Drug terrorism has increased the cost of
- getting Attorney General Richard Thornburgh around. The
- nation's top cop now rides in a $100,000 armor-plated limo
- instead of a Government-issued Lincoln and on an FBI jet rather
- than first class on commercial airlines.
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- NOT AGAIN. A whole month has passed without a sex scandal
- on Capitol Hill. Fear not. The House ethics committee is looking
- into complaints from Congressmen that some of their colleagues
- are doing more than lifting weights in the members-only House
- gym. Along with a basketball court, swimming pool, putting green
- and weight room, the gym has rooms with beds where, reportedly,
- Congressmen have entertained male and female guests. The gym
- made news in 1986 when Texas Congressman Richard Armey was
- evicted after members discovered he had been living in one of
- the rooms to avoid renting an apartment.
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- LIFE AFTER THE SPLIT. Jane Fonda's glamour was never enough
- to catapult Tom Hayden out of the California assembly. Now
- Hayden may run for the state's top eco-watchdog post, which he
- helped create. High-profile landfill work could be a prelude to
- a 1992 bid for Alan Cranston's Senate seat.
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