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...copy of the historic November issue (actual price: $1.16). Yet only one newspaper, the Communist Party organ Akahata (Red Flag), has since formed an investigative team, and many Japanese doubt that their discreet press will ever develop an appetite for muckraking. Even so, Bungei-Shunju will remain a goad to the complaisant. The magazine's January issue, due on the newsstands next week, contains further disclosures about Tanaka. Managing Editor Kengo Tanaka (no kin) will not elaborate, but promises: "There's some hot stuff...
...held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice and goad at OPEC meetings. Amuzegar last April was shifted to Interior Minister, partly so that he might help ensure more honest elections than have been held in the past. "Even the dead voted," the Shah told TIME, recalling those elections, "and more than once...
...give us some supporting characters who are not just mouthpieces for historical exposition. From them we might learn something of the spirit of a time in which a figure we are expected to regard as a demigod had an uncommon number of enemies. At the very least they should goad the central figure into some emotion less tedious than all-forgiving humility...
Since the first episodes have been shown on the air before the final ones have been shot, not even the Wilkinses themselves know what will happen next. So far, the suspense has centered on the efforts of Mrs. Wilkins and Eldest Daughter Marian, 19, to goad Marian's boy friend Tom (with whom she shares a room at the top of the family house) into marriage. "He's a bit thick," says Marian of Tom. "He's not thick," counters her mother. "Otherwise you'd already be married...
...response to army demands for higher pay, the Emperor had earlier been forced to oust his old Cabinet and name a progressive-minded diplomat, Endalkachew Makonnen, 46, as Prime Minister. The military's success in getting what it wanted apparently served as a goad to other dissatisfied Ethiopians. In early March a general strike paralyzed Ethiopia's cities for four days and cut the country off from the outside world. The international airports in Addis Ababa and Asmara were shut down and the Red Sea ports were closed. Food and fuel shortages spread as truck drivers stopped working...