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- <text id=92TT0557>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: American Notes:Politics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- POLITICS
- No Laughing Matter
- </hdr><body>
- <p> South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings jumped on the
- Japan-bashing bandwagon in grand--and tasteless--style last
- week. Speaking to a group of workers at a home-state
- roller-bearing manufacturing plant, the loose-tongued
- 70-year-old Democrat said he had a message for Japanese
- officials who have questioned the competence of the U.S. work
- force. He advised them to think of the atomic mushroom cloud and
- recall that it was "made in America by illiterate Americans and
- tested in Japan."
- </p>
- <p> While the reference to the U.S. nuclear bombings of
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki drew loud applause from the assembled
- factory workers, it attracted swift condemnation from the White
- House and many of Hollings' congressional colleagues--not to
- mention Japanese survivors of the 1945 blasts. The Japanese
- government said little about the remark when it was widely
- reported in Tokyo. But the Senator was unrepentant. "I'm
- defending against America bashing," he said. "When you defend
- America, they want you to apologize."
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- </body></article>
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