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- <text id=89TT3279>
- <title>
- Dec. 11, 1989: Read My Eels
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 11, 1989 Building A New World
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- Read My Eels
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By J.D. Reed/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> While some Americans fret that the Japanese are buying up
- the U.S., the Japanese may have another concern: Yankee athletes
- are winning all the prizes. Americans picked up the most
- valuable player awards in both Japanese baseball leagues, and
- a 488-lb. Samoan-American sumo wrestler known as Konishiki, 25,
- last week became only the second foreigner to triumph in a major
- sumo tournament. Big even by sumo's broad standards, Konishiki
- was once called "meat bomb" by his detractors. Among his prizes:
- a congratulatory message from President Bush, 1.8 tons of rice
- and 5,000 eels. The wrestler is already one slippery customer
- in the ring.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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