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...embarrassing nod to the nation's militaristic past. And then there are those envelopes stuffed with 10,000-yen notes that keep turning up?or going missing. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for example, the travel office is $5 million short. Scandals have forced three of Mori's cabinet members to quit. Adding to the aura of sordidness, magazines have been publishing photographs of the Prime Minister drinking with suspected members of organized crime syndicates...
...DIED. JOHN MACKAY,62, tough-talking senior Conservative in Britain's House of Lords and former cabinet minister whose dry wit made him popular even with his opponents, of a heart attack; in London. First elected an M.P. in 1979, Mackay served as Social Security Minister under John Major from 1994-97, and become Lord Mackay when he was elevated to the House of Lords in 1991 where until recently he was deputy Conservative leader...
...containment period" that could be successful for quite a while. For how long? He wouldn't say, but his analogies - Cuba and the Soviet Union - will surely scandalize hard-liners, who think Saddam could be ousted in a year. If Powell emerges as the dove in the Bush Cabinet, as some predict, he could be in for heavy flak from more than just a few editorial writers...
...Echoes of Clinton Bush could have stopped right there, substance-wise, after five minutes. That was the plan, that was the pitch, and if America had tuned out right then, well, certainly this Bush could understand that better than anybody. But he'd gotten the Congress and the Cabinet and a "tax family" and the mayor of Philadelphia together for this, and he'd reserved the air time on all the networks, and he had a presidential-type address to give...
...says a prominent House Democrat. "The only Clinton left now is Hillary, and she's the Senate's problem." The Clinton Administration diaspora has been nearly silent as well. "Total disgust," says a former Cabinet secretary, who has canvassed half a dozen others. "They want no part of it. They have had it--with both of them." Congressman Barney Frank, a Clinton stalwart throughout the impeachment scandal, told the Boston Herald the Rich pardon was "just abusive. There are people who forgot where the line was between public service and what was personally convenient for them...