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...LOOKED AS IF PRIME MINISTER Kiichi Miyazawa would weaken his political opponents in a shrewdly orchestrated maneuver. When Michio Watanabe, 69, announced he would resign from his post of Foreign Minister owing to poor health, Miyazawa offered the position to former Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata. Hata heads a rebellious faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and has hinted that he might create a new party. Miyazawa apparently thought he could distract Hata from his cause by luring the renegade into his Cabinet with a prestigious post. Hata, however, declined the offer, saying he wanted to "stay in the field...
...abolish totally the practice of abortion through legal and nonviolent means. Boot-camp volunteers were required to sign a pact of nonviolence before every demonstration. And lessons were not given, as far as reporters allowed to witness some of the classroom sessions could determine, in several of the antiabortion faction's most extreme tactics: torching abortion clinics and suffusing them with noxious chemicals...
...bank and a leasing company; he pays a pittance of $450 a month in interest to the leasing company, nothing to the bank. Hoshino resignedly says "the way things are can't be helped." But he does rail at politicians who "just work for their own political party or faction, and not for the entire country...
What then? Nobody knows. It seems unlikely, though, that the Liberal Democrats can carry on as an unquestioned force, solving all problems with backroom deals among faction leaders. Public revulsion has caused even party stalwarts to start talking about shaking up the corruption-breeding electoral system...
...want to emphasize that all this noise is resounding from the dissatisfaction of an extremely small faction of the Undergraduate Council; at most three "concerned" Council women are fabricating an issue for the purpose of either stirring up controversy or enhancing their own electoral chances (If their true goal were to eradicate "elitism" pense, then why do they engage in practices embodying exclusivity?) Because it is such a small faction, I hope that students do not generalize and assume that such behavior is commonplace within the Undergraduate Council. The majority of Council members, including the present leadership, eschew the fact...