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The leadership vacuum, however, may increase the responsiveness of the traditionally elite dominated Japanese political system. Without a LDP will have to bow to the pressure of opposition parties and local consumer group movements who have sharply criticized the party's emphasis on or environmental integrity. Opposition parties are already...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Discovering Japan | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Growers unilaterally declared an impasse in the talks and negotiations broke down (The State Agricultural Labor Relations Board charged 28 growers with refusing to bargain in good faith). The employers hired slick public relations men (who ran the Reagan and Ford campaigns) to improve their public image. A favorite public...

Author: By Julie Mondaca, | Title: Stop the Red Coach | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

The weekend combines politics with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

When students stormed University Hall in 1969 demanding the abolition of the ROTC, the administration capitulated. But ten years later; with a tightened economy and a more sedate student body, the University has met student demands of a different sort with letters and reports, but no action. Frustrated by Harvard...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard--Divesting of the Debate | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Government of National Reconstruction was issuing many welcome decrees. First came an end of censorship, permitting long-silenced newspapers like the stridently anti-Somoza La Prensa to start up their presses. Homes, cars and other property that guerrillas had confiscated during their battle with Tacho's national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Steering a Middle Course | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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