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...unseasonably warm and the sky was clear blue. In meteorological and in diplomatic terms, there was a thaw in the air last week when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Tokyo to begin a five-day visit, the first to Japan by a Soviet Foreign Minister since Andrei Gromyko, now the Soviet President, stepped on Japanese soil ten years ago. The latest visitor set an optimistic note, declaring his hope that the two nations will be blown closer together by a "wind of change...
...Bauhaus and his flight from Nazi Germany, he was American, having been born in New York City and emigrated to Europe in 1887. He longed to be a musician, supported himself by drawing caricatures and illustrations and did not start painting until he was 36. Naturally, Feininger did not begin with the style he is known for. But until lately, little was known of his early efforts. Most of them remained in East Germany...
...France seems set to begin a historic experiment in power sharing. It is up to Mitterrand to choose within 20 days a Premier who reflects the new right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still be difficult. Had the conservatives scored the resounding victory that had been predicted, Mitterrand would have had little choice but to name as Premier Jacques Chirac, 53, the mayor of Paris and the energetic leader of the R.P.R., the largest opposition party. Chirac had made it clear that if he were...
Before Israel's independence in 1948, Menachem Begin used to describe his comrades in the Irgun underground who were warring against the British as the "fighting family." Last week Begin's Herut Party, which the former Prime Minister dominated for almost four decades, demonstrated that it was still ready for a fight. This time, however, the family members spent most of their time battling one another. The result: a schism within Herut, the backbone of the right-wing Likud bloc, between the followers of Party Leader Yitzhak Shamir, who is also Foreign Minister, and the combined forces of Deputy Prime...
...Because Begin refused to groom a successor within Herut, a power struggle at last week's convention was probably inevitable. Shamir, bolstered by a letter of support from Begin, who remained in seclusion at his Jerusalem home, won the first round when a Shamir loyalist, Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav, was elected convention chairman. He lost the second when Sharon defeated Shamir's candidate, Begin's son Benny, 43, a political neophyte, for chairmanship of the committee that controls the selection of delegates...