Word: abely
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...policy papers. Never mind that one of the three candidates will become Prime Minister, succeeding Yasuhiro Nakasone, 70, when he steps down later this month after five years in office. No, the speculation immediately centered on which of the three -- Party Secretary General Noboru Takeshita, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe or Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa -- will be the best power broker, dispensing promises among the various factions that make up the L.D.P. The winner needs a majority of the 445 L.D.P. members in the Diet. "I do not think there are any contentious issues dividing us," said Takeshita. "It will...
...genial Abe, 63, worked as Nakasone's highly visible Foreign Minister from 1982 to 1986, logging 39 official trips abroad. Open and easy in manner, he is the closest in style to Nakasone, a man who reshaped Japanese politics by being dynamic and forceful...
Takeshita and Abe have already cobbled together a fragile union with another faction leader, Toshio Komoto. The trio controls 231 votes, but who the candidate will be, Takeshita or Abe, remains a question. To the delight of Miyazawa, who is fishing for allies, the Abe-Takeshita alliance is rickety. As Abe puts it, "There is only one chair for us to sit in. We can't solve the problem with a round of golf, which I would surely...
Shorthanded benches have occurred before.After the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas, a year elapsed before the Senate confirmed Richard Nixon's third nominee, Harry Blackmun. The Justices postponed some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four...
Blackmun won unanimous Senate confirmation after two earlier Nixon nominees--G. Harrold Carswell of Florida and Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina--were rejected after bitter debate. He took the court seat of Justice Abe Fortas, who resigned during controversy over the ethics of some of his off-the-bench activities...