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- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: Sky Gazer
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 103
- Sky Gazer
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- <p>By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> In public, Japan's energetic new Prime Minister Toshiki
- Kaifu favors polka-dot ties and baseball games. But in private,
- according to a letter written to a minor functionary in 1983,
- he has more celestial concerns. He acknowledged in the letter
- that he was a UFO buff, one who had looked for unidentified
- flying objects on trips to Australia, the South Pole and
- Switzerland. Alas, he spotted no flying saucers, but, he wrote,
- "I'll live on with hopes of . . . encountering a UFO some day."
- The Prime Minister has a leg up on that wish. His cousin Norio
- Kaifu is an astronomer.
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- </body></article>
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