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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
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<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.
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</body></article>
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