Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until that Walpurgisnacht, nothing could divert him from the goal of a new world order. In 1931 Hitler adopted a vegetarian diet, but it did not improve his disposition. Convinced -- falsely -- that he was suffering from a precancerous condition, he had a series of tantrums. "I cannot lose even a year," he cried. "I must come to power quickly in order to solve the gigantic problems in the little time remaining to me. I must! I must...
...L.D.P. announced that it would select a new leader by ballot rather than through the kind of back-room parleying that brought Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno to power. While party members nominated three candidates, senior power brokers reverted to habit and backed Kaifu, a faceless and seemingly malleable Diet member, as Prime Minister...
Kaifu, though regarded as a bright and rising legislator, boasts few achievements during nearly three decades in the Diet, except for serving twice as Education Minister. "He's a good-natured person," says Mitsuo Tomizuka, a former labor leader who once negotiated with Kaifu. "But I worry about whether he can lead people, whether he can assert independence...
Drafted into the J.S.P. in 1969 to boost its sagging fortunes, the constitutional lawyer has proved to be an able attention getter. Her academic background and her ruthlessly logical arguments, boomed out in her loud voice during the Diet's question hour, have instilled fear in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Seeking a gimmick to rebound from a disastrous election in 1986, the J.S.P. asked Doi to take on the party's leadership. Fearing she had been chosen as a "paper tiger" with no influence over policy, Doi, according to some reports, conducted tough negotiations with back-room power brokers...
...first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric...