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Tanaka's arrest was the stunning climax of the long-brewing Lockheed scandal that has lapped at the highest levels in Italy and The Netherlands, as well as in Japan. "Operation Summit," as the Japanese dubbed the Tanaka arrest, was hailed with a chorus of banzais. On the floor of the Osaka Stock Exchange, recounted one Japanese broker, after a moment of stunned silence, "everybody began howling his head off." In Tokyo, after an early morning dip, stock prices jumped twelve points...
Still, the party and particularly Miki, its chief, should gain from Tanaka's arrest. With the Tanaka faction in disarray, Miki has eliminated his most serious rival within the party. Miki has been widely accused-with some justification-by his L.D.P. colleagues of lackluster leadership, and he could yet face a serious challenge before the election campaign. But his once sagging popularity is on the rise, and the Japanese, still no boat rockers despite their glee over Tanaka's fall, do not seem to be in a mood to turn in large numbers to any of the opposition...
Tanaka's jailing came after five months of work by a team of Japanese prosecutors who have been investigating the case since February, when U.S. Senate probers examining corporate practices abroad disclosed that $12.6 million in bribes had been paid to Japanese officials. In a series of arrests beginning June 2, charges had been brought against 15 other Japanese, most of them businessmen, including top corporate leaders like Hiyama as well as smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached...
...touched by Lockheed cash. In Italy, where investigations into allegations that a former Premier, among others, received Lockheed money are at a standstill, pending resolution of the latest government crisis, editorials complained that "in our country, only the little fish get caught." In The Netherlands, where Tanaka's arrest also made headlines, a blue-ribbon investigating team is scheduled to make a report in two weeks on Lockheed wrongdoing...
...Ford's White House week began, he greeted members of the Washington police department and the FBI who had pulled off two spectacular fake fencing operations. In both cases they set up storefronts and posed as hoods to buy stolen goods and then arrest the thieves (see THE LAW). The first operation was known as "the Sting" and the second as G.Y.A., for "Got Ya Again." Tuesday evening Ford flew to the All-Star baseball game in Philadelphia, keenly aware that ABC's televised broadcast of the game was expected to outdraw...