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...strings of a puppet, and it falls down. That is what happened last week to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu. Noboru Takeshita, the leader of the dominant faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, severed the political cords that have propped up Kaifu for two years. Kaifu realized he had lost his standing within the party. Rather than face humiliation in the Oct. 27 party elections that will select the next Prime Minister, he announced that he would...
...Kaifu's political collapse followed a week of legislative maneuvering that dramatized his inability to corral party support. A set of political-reform bills was killed in the Diet at the committee level. Kaifu erupted in anger and hinted that he might dissolve the assembly. It was an empty threat that cost Kaifu what little party respect he enjoyed...
...contest for the Prime Minister's job is wide open. The three contenders who had already lined up to challenge Kaifu see their positions strengthened. Within the Takeshita faction, politicians are scrambling frantically for the nomination...
...Presidents, Prime Ministers and potentates whom, in many cases, he knows well and calls by their first name. If a crisis erupts, Bush's instinct is to reach for a telephone. More trouble on the Turkey-Iraq border? Call Turgut Ozal. Another glitch in the trade talks? Call Toshiki Kaifu. For the past 2 1/2 years, the White House switchboard has often been more important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy than the State Department, CIA and Strategic Air Command combined...
Ever since President Bush announced plans to visit Hawaii for the 50th anniversary of the PEARL HARBOR attack, the government of Toshiki Kaifu has been scrambling to avert a fresh round of Japan bashing. Kaifu's advisers have suggested that when Bush travels to Tokyo as scheduled in late November, he pay a respectful call on Hiroshima. Some have even hinted that Bush, a World War II fighter pilot who was shot down by the Japanese in 1944, should take Kaifu with him to Pearl Harbor to symbolize how two old enemies are now allies. But White House officials vehemently...