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This surprising moral treatise concerns a historical episode little known in the West in which the Japanese, having learned to make and use firearms, thereupon set those skills aside for 200 years. Portuguese sailors brought the first matchlocks to Japan in 1543, and within a few years the Japanese were using their own much improved models with bloody effectiveness. A nationwide revulsion then occurred, not because of the bloodiness, notes Perrin - Japan was one of the most bellicose countries on earth - but because guns gave common soldiers the means to kill noble samurai. By the time Commodore Perry forced...
...just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police, Jones was house-hopping around Houston. When a Ranger and another lawman arrived at the place where he was staying, the clean-shaven Jones jumped over a back fence; the police thereupon arrested his mustachioed brother Clayton and, despite his avowal that he was the wrong man, helicoptered him back to Austin. People began calling the cops the "Bumble Bees...
...lives in one of the threatened houses, first spotted the boulder. Partially dislodged by a landslide, it had come to rest 200 ft. above his house. After vainly asking local officials to get rid of it, he finally sent an angry telegram to Governor Jerry Brown. The state thereupon declared an emergency, shut down five miles of the highway, and hired a Long Beach construction company for $97,000 to haul the boulder away...
Davenport police thereupon obtained an arrest warrant to make a date with the lovable bachelor. Last week, Shelton was returned to the institution he had fled...
...magnet school program is not Hannon's only concern. In 1977 the school system lost an eight-year legal battle against a federal order for reassignment of teachers and principals to increase integration. Hannon thereupon transferred 3,500 teachers and principals in an integration program that Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano called "a model for the nation." But last month a federal judge declared the scheme unconstitutional because it exempted teachers over age 55, thereby discriminating against younger teachers. Meanwhile, Hannon has ignored a recommendation from the school board's City-Wide Advisory Committee, made...