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...mound in the final inning to save the game. The next day, in the championship, he pitched a no-hitter: nine innings without giving up a single hit, a feat roughly comparable to a golfing hole-in-one. "Nobody will ever forget what Daisuke did," says baseball writer Keizo Konishi. "It was an unbelievable three days...
...Pyongyang on Monday for two days of talks with North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il - the first ever meeting between the leaders of two states divided not by a border but by a cease-fire line. President Clinton Thursday used the funeral of former Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi as an opportunity for intense huddling with leaders of both South Korea and Japan over next week's meeting. President Kim's "Sunshine Policy" of rapprochement with the North has at times made South Korea more inclined toward concessions to Pyongyang than its U.S. defenders. Although supportive of President...
...DIED. KEIZO OBUCHI, 62, former Japanese Prime Minister; six weeks after suffering a massive stroke; in Tokyo...
...AIDS sufferers and teachers. As for political courage, even friends say he has the heart of a flea. All of which makes Mori, 62, an ideal Prime Minister--at least in the eyes of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which last week chose him to replace the incapacitated Keizo Obuchi at the helm of Japan's government...
...recent selection of a new prime minister in Japan epitomized the way Japanese politics work. With little or no public input, party officials selected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officer Yoshiro Mori to replace former prime minister Keizo Obuchi, who suffered a stroke. In back-room negotiations based mostly on who would most obediently and loyally serve the LDP's interests, Mori emerged with the coveted title in hand. Unfortunately, his selection embodied the flawed modus operandi of the LDP and the Japanese political system in general...