Word: ikeda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepting a $55,000 bribe from shipowners, and in the uproar that followed, he resigned. Sato maintains to this day that the money was a political contribution and that he merely failed to register it according to the law. He returned to power after his former classmate Hayato Ikeda took over the Liberal Democratic leadership in 1960. Sato became Minister of Olympic Construction, and for his excellent performance won respect and a new shot at power. After Ikeda fell ill with a terminal cancer in November 1964, Sato's long wait was over: he succeeded to both the party...
...political arm of the Buddhist-backed Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), led by piously political Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...
...that Adlai Stevenson chose to rebut the Saturday Evening Post's article depicting him as a craven dove during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. It was the launching pad for Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the forum from which Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda apologized to the U.S. for the 1964 stabbing of Ambassador Edwin Reischauer, the program on which Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower spent the morning of their 50th anniversary...
Three Warnings. For Sato, who inherited the post of Premier after the retirement of ailing Liberal Democratic Party Leader Hayato Ikeda two years ago, this month's election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people...
...Comet Ikeda is expected to Crash into the sun tomorrow because of heavy witchcraft this weekend. The Astronomy Department unofficially announced last night that the extinguishing effects of the comet on the sun should cause dusk about an hour earlier for the remainder of the winter. A national time adjustment is expected...