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Hungry citizens of Akita, in northwestern Honshu, complained that nine days after the surrender the community vegetable garden was torn up to make way for a new air-raid shelter. City officials explained that funds for the shelter had been provided by the central government, and that spending the money for anything else would create a difficult bookkeeping problem.

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MANOJ, a police officer stationed in Mumbai, on why he and other police don't criticize their leaders for failing to meet promises to improve dire working conditions after last fall's deadly attacks on the Taj hotel
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