Japan has become the top buyer of American farm products, it's reported. It helps give folks there the energy to whip us in the trade competition.

- Major league baseball is asking umpires to expand the strike zone this year. It would be ironic if the umps balked.- "We should not use elections to divide," President Clinton says. Except, of course, winners from losers.

- "Technology," says President Clinton, "can enable our government to work better." For instance, it now takes much less time to keep track of the national debt.

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