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...candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some of his colleagues regard him as an untrustworthy opportunist because he has been known to switch allegiances within party factions. The third prospect, former Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 60, is respected as an intellectual but considered by some as too much of a gentleman to be able to control the factions...
...allies could take some steps to try to prevent a recurrence of the tensions that caused the current crisis. For the alliance to emerge stronger, it will have to take into account the changing global situation and the new power relationships among the allies. Says former Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa: "The U.S. must recognize the plurality of interests of her allies and accept the consequences." Delaware's Senator Joseph R. Biden suggests the U.S. should be prepared to share its oil supplies with allies whose flow is curtailed because they backed American policy in the Middle East. Says Biden...
...restraining exports and prodding domestic activity to a 7% growth. Other Japanese policymakers, however, complained that Tokyo's labors will come to naught unless Washington helps out by controlling the dollar. "It will all be in vain if the U.S. does not cooperate," said Economic Planning Agency Director Kiichi Miyazawa. "The fact that our surpluses continue to increase despite our efforts is due mainly to U.S. foot-dragging on her energy problem and inflation." (Another cause of the surplus, U.S. officials argue, is the inability of American exporters to penetrate the highly protected Japanese market...
...South Viet Nam and overplayed U.S. responsibility for Saigon's debacle, there was no question that the American image was at least temporarily damaged and that some U.S. allies were jittery. The Japanese government announced that it was reappraising its pro-Saigon policy and that its Foreign Minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, who will visit Washington this week, will ask Kissinger to reaffirm the U.S. nuclear protection of Japan. In South Korea, the nervous government of President Park Chung Hee seemed to accept the Kissinger linkage theory that events in one part of the world develop a momentum affecting events elsewhere. Park...
...rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan's Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said that he considered the floor plan "beyond the bounds of reason" for his country. The producing countries were cool too. OPEC leaders believe that only continued high prices will serve their dual purpose of building up purchasing power and preventing the rapid depletion of oil sources...