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- <text id=92TT1423>
- <title>
- June 22, 1992: World:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 22, 1992 Allergies
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 27
- WORLD
- Et Cetera
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- <p> BEEFING UP YEN DIPLOMACY
- </p>
- <p> Following a bitter debate over the intent of its strong
- antiwar constitution, Japan's parliament last week cast crucial
- votes to authorize sending troops overseas for the first time
- since World War II to participate in carefully circumscribed U.N.
- peacekeeping operations. The move follows Japan's tentative step
- of sending minesweeping forces to the gulf after the war, and
- is a victory for the government. Stung by Western criticism of
- Tokyo's painless pay-your-way yen diplomacy, the government has
- sought to fashion a global political role for Japan that matches
- its economic muscle.
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- </body></article>
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