Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Japan's big polluters are in big trouble. For four months, industries across the country have been blasted by a group of belligerent Buddhists who call themselves kogai higyoshu jusatsu kitosodan ("the prayerful band of monks dedicated to imprecating curse and death on polluting industrialists...
...prayerful band started its cursing crusade only after "nights of soul-searching" convinced its members that Japan's notoriously lax antipollution laws needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara. The public felt differently. To many Japanese, the picture of a solitary band of Buddhists silhouetted against smoke-belching factories suggested latter-day samurai...
Buoyed by their impact thus far, the group plans to expand its excoriation campaign next month. And last week Japan's Diet gave the curses added clout. In response to growing public rage, the upper house passed an unusually tough environmental package aimed at polluters who endanger human health. Those caught and convicted now face up to seven years in prison...
...thus narrowly averted a liquidity crisis-but not without a few tense moments. Some financially embarrassed companies had trouble refinancing their commercial paper. In one case, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend flew to Manhattan and arranged a $400 million increase in the company's line of credit from a group of banks. Many other cash-hungry companies were not so fortunate. Business failures in 1970 rose to a three-year peak of about 10,000, and the sums of money involved reached an alltime high...
HORNETS' NEST is a weird little war movie full of bizarre energy and merciless violence, a kind of Dirty Dozen Reach Puberty. The plot has to do with a group of Italian war orphans who capture a downed American paratrooper (Rock Hudson) and enlist his aid in wreaking bloody revenge on the Nazi occupation forces. There is one sardonic sequence where he teaches the kids to shoot machine guns and another, quite brutal, where they all joyously massacre a town full of Nazis. Director Phil Karlson's fadeout is hopelessly sentimental, and there is a subplot about...