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NATION, Page 54GRAPEVINE
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.