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...identified himself as a burakumin has ever risen as high in the political world as Nonaka, who was chief cabinet secretary under the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Before resigning in December, Nonaka served current Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in the same job. Having distanced himself from the beleaguered Mori, who is expected to be replaced as chief of the ruling LDP?and thus, as Prime Minister?next month, Nonaka has positioned himself to replace his former boss. "I can't think of anyone else but Nonaka who can be the next Prime Minister," says political analyst Minoru Morita. Party...
...leftist victories that would have given Jospin a crucial boost in advance of next spring's parliamentary and presidential votes. Instead, Jospin was engulfed by a "blue tide" of conservative victories that raised worrisome questions about his future chances. Perhaps the most alarming sign was that five of his cabinet members were defeated in local contests, including such stalwarts as Labor Minister Elisabeth Guigou in Avignon, education chief Jack Lang in Blois and transport boss Jean-Claude Gayssot in Béziers...
...Jospin immediately promised to draw conclusions from the results. His first response was to rein in the practice of allowing officials to "accumulate" several elective offices: last week Jospin obliged cabinet members who had won municipal polls to choose between their ministerial portfolios and their mayor's seats. Other changes may be in the offing, as the strong showing of the Greens and the collapse of the Communists may lead Jospin to give the ecologists more weight in his coalition - at the risk of seeing the disgruntled Communists harden their positions on social issues...
...understand that for people in public life who have staff, like senators and the president, generally their material is in pretty decent shape and arranged in a recognizable order," says Michael J. Dabrishus, who heads the special collections division. "This isn't as if the files in someone's cabinet were just dumped into boxes...
Williams apparently wanted the taunting to go no further. He told Stevens of his plan to take one of his father's guns from a locked cabinet inside the apartment. "Andy took the key off the chain when his dad was sleeping," says Stevens. It's unclear whether Williams' father noticed the theft of the gun--a rare, German-made Arminius .22-cal. long-barrel revolver with an eight-shot capacity. But after the shooting, police retrieved seven other guns from the cabinet, which they said was properly locked...