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...promised to "eliminate completely" Tanaka's influence in the party. The opposition dismissed the gesture as cosmetic. Yet even if Nakasone survives the political sharpshooting within his party, he still faces an election next November to retain the L.D.P. leadership. Last week's defeat may return to haunt him then-as Nakasone well knows. In 1979, when the L.D.P. lost only one seat, several members loudly demanded the resignation of then Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Among the most vociferous: Yasuhiro Nakasone...
...There's ghoulish side to journalism," she says, explaining that similar stories of human hardship recur, coming "back to haunt you." "Once a reporter has done a story, it's old news. The editor wants something different," adds Bernstein, who thinks reporters should have more opportunities to do follow-up stories as in-depth projects...
...Unhappily, the average Joint Chiefs of Staff member has all the public relations sense of Attila the Hun. And deep in his psyche is a feeling that the press cost lives, reputations and indeed victory by its access and reporting in Viet Nam." That unhappy war will continue to haunt history as long as the wrong lessons are drawn from it. There are better precedents...
Reminders of a more prosperous past haunt the city. Shells of half-finished high-rises mar the skyline, their struts jutting crazily and their cranes frozen in midair. Hulks of taxis, virtually new trucks, and even public buses rust on roadsides or in overgrown lots because the few spare parts that trickle into Angola are funneled to the army. To its credit, however, the government has managed to maintain a reliable city bus system...
...candidates and alarm over the issues, the nation's electorate finally got its turn. It spoke quietly. It expressed no overwhelming preference for a personality or a party. But it acted coolly, picking and choosing among candidates. And it laid to rest some phantoms that had threatened to haunt the Republic and the two-party system for years. Yet the nation denied Richard Nixon the really massive "mandate to govern" he had pleaded for. In fact, the vote was in many ways a reflection of the divisions that have been tormenting the country all year...