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...Have you disappointed your people? We keep telling the people that we cannot change everything in one day. We ask them to understand that in the past four years we have tried to build the institutions of the state. That is not an easy task. In the next couple of years we will start development programs, but we know that four years without jobs is not easy for them...
...Lieut. General Kuribayashi, and the story of Japan's defense of Iwo Jima? He was a commanding officer, so I was interested in how this war began, how they made such a mistake and ended up on the wrong path. I re-studied the war because I could not understand the thinking process he went through. It was a good chance for me to find out that there were people like Kuribayashi who fought in such a way, to find out how much they suffered...
...movie is coming out at a time when some people are concerned that Japan is beginning to remilitarize. How do you think the film will be received in this kind of environment? I don't want to talk politics, but I think that everybody who sees it will understand what this film is trying to say. This film is not a display of patriotism, it is not an ode to war, and it does not treat the Japanese as tragic victims. It is a testimony to what...
...easier to understand the pardon when you reckon with the prayers. The question of what to do about Nixon landed hard on Ford from the moment he was sworn in. Apart from everything else, Nixon was a longtime friend. Ford worried about what putting the disgraced President in prison would do to him, as well as to a country so shaken by the betrayals of those years. Mercy and healing were very much on Ford's mind on Saturday, Aug. 31, when he spent the morning discussing an amnesty plan for Vietnam draft evaders. When the meeting was over, Ford...
...Republican lawmakers know each party pays a price in two years if legislative gridlock continues. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plan to begin the new session with a closed meeting of all Republicans and Democrats in the Capitol to discuss ways they can get along. "Both understand the need to change the way D.C. operates," says Manley...