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Coordination is Nonaka's stock-in-trade. The son of a rice farmer, he is the consummate power broker, a puppet-master who pulls the strings behind the scenes for the LDP, the party that has run Japan nearly continuously for the past 45 years. Nonaka is an old-fashioned pol, having honed his skills as mayor of small-town Sonobe. He first ran for the town council in 1950, at the age of 25, and was elected mayor eight years later. In 1967, he was elected to the Kyoto prefectural government, and immediately butted heads with the long-time...
SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY Finance Com chair and Iowa gent-farmer harvests enough votes to overhaul bankruptcy laws...
Ireland's Natural Resources Minister, Hugh Byrne, called Britain "the leper of Europe" for not getting a hold on the virus before it spread abroad. And a farmer in the afflicted French town of Mayenne told a British reporter to go back to "your whore of a country." The predominant mood, however, is not petulance but perplexity about how to fix a system that ships livestock in big herds over long distances for sale and slaughter, crossing borders and oceans like any other global commodity, thus giving lethal bugs a chance to spread...
...nast's predecessor as Agriculture Minister, Karl-Heinz Funke, was a farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead...
...What's already clear is that Künast favors the consumer over the farmer. What's not so clear is whether, in an age when agricultural policy is increasingly dictated from Brussels, Künast has the freedom to put her unorthodox policies into practice...