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...stroke that has left Japan's Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi fighting for his life is bad news for those studying his country's vital signs. The Japanese cabinet resigned en masse Tuesday, paving the way for the election of a new leader. But that may not be a simple matter in a ruling party divided on issues ranging from the pace of banking reform to personality differences. "Obuchi was the one leader able to unite the different factions of the ruling party," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer. "Those who had been complaining that Obuchi's government had been...
...trains ran for Harry Truman in 1948, when he clicked off 31,700 miles and delivered 356 speeches (16 in one day). Truman astonished his own political experts and the world that year by beating Republican Thomas Dewey, who was so confident of victory that he was choosing his Cabinet before any vote was cast...
...despite near unanimous Senate opposition, or calling for intervention in Bosnia long before it was popular, or expressing the conviction that gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military--can be perceived as reflections of his value system, but in each case he also has the filing cabinet to prove it. You don't just have to take him at his word...
...beginning, [committee member Paul E. "Ted" Mussman '00] and I believed that the committee was the decision-making body," Christine Chi-Yan Chen '00 wrote in an e-mail message. "Hence, we sought and got the input of cabinet (composed of the student directors of 50 committees and the student officers) on several occasions...
...discuss the withdrawal from the Golan Heights, taken from Syria in 1967, and is now leaving the area of Lebanon bordering Syria; it is Syria's turn to make concessions for peace. Yesterday's announcement of a shake-up within the Syrian government--President Hafez Assad fired his entire Cabinet--will hopefully be a step toward a more conciliatory Syrian attitude. In economic terms and within the diplomatic community, it seems Syria may not have a choice: it, like Jordan, needs ties to Israel's economy and technology, and peace may just be a matter of time, pride and land...