Word: dieted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan it was the most spectacular domestic political shokku in years. In a move that startled ordinary citizens and politicians alike, the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last week selected a little-known veteran politician, former Deputy Premier Takeo Miki, 67, as its president. When the Japanese Diet convenes this week for a special session at which Kakuei Tanaka will formally resign as Premier, the L.D.P. majority will ensure the election of Miki as Japan's twelfth postwar head of government...
...task of selecting a new L.D.P. chief was entrusted to one of the party's most respected elders, its crafty Vice President Etsusaburo Shiina, 76. Often working late into the night, Shiina met with faction leaders, party elders and Diet backbenchers. From these conversations, he concluded that the selection of either Fukuda or Ohira might fatally split the L.D.P., ending its 25-year domination of Japanese politics. Shiina was also aware that the public had become seriously disillusioned by factional bickering within the party and by the still unrefuted charges of illicit financial dealings that drove Tanaka from office...
...from 11% in 1972 to an estimated sub-zero figure this year. The country's inflation of more than 20% a year is the worst in the industrialized world. Last summer the dominant L.D.P. barely won a two-seat victory in elections for the upper house of the Diet, and Tanaka's personal popularity sank in the polls from a record high of 62% when he took office to a record low of 16% this fall...
...country. But in Japan, where the press seldom mentions the private peccadillos of government leaders, it was an unprecedented display of hara (guts). The nation's last major political scandal, the 1966 "black mist" influence-peddling affair, went unreported in the press until the matter came before the Diet. This time, Bungei-Shunju 's disclosures were ignored for nearly a fortnight. It was only when foreign reporters grilled Tanaka about the article that big Japanese dailies began to print disapproving editorials. Since then, not one publication has pursued any of the leads turned up by Bungei-Shunju...
...Nessen's woes are also attributable to the feisty, post-Watergate pugnacity of the press. As the New Republic's John Osborne observes: "The atmosphere in the White House press room is the meanest I've ever seen. After you've been on a diet of blood for 18 months to two years, it's hard to kick...