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...sixth son"), Lacson has been an amateur boxer, soccer player, anti-Japanese guerrilla, lawyer, professor and newspaper columnist. During the war he fought in the battles for Manila and Baguio, and was cited by the U.S. Sixth Army "for gallantry under fire." When Japan's touring Premier Nobusuke Kishi asked him if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson snapped, "I was too busy shooting at Japanese to learn any." Of Americans, he says: "They live in fear of Communism, B.O., halitosis, pink toothbrush and their own unpopularity...
Circled on Ike's calendar are even bigger international days: Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi arrives in late January; France's President Charles de Gaulle is due in early April. Then comes the Paris summit meeting with Khrushchev, after that Ike's own trip to the Soviet Union (probably in June). He has plans to tour Latin America and perhaps the Far East later in the year-all told enough to keep Ike hopping to the end of his term...
...debilitating wounds of Algeria, chipped away at NATO's supranational foundations; but the problems raised by De Gaulle's France were at least and at last those of national purpose, not political paralysis. Just a hot breath away from the Red Chinese dragon, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, Man of the Year in the Far East, opted for conservatism, free enterprise and closer ties with the U.S., won a thumping victory in elections for the upper house of the Diet, routed Socialists who campaigned for an alliance with Peking and Moscow...
...first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative to the conservatism of Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi...
Nishio's walkout will probably make it easier for Kishi to push through the Diet the revised security treaty that U.S. and Japanese diplomats are curently negotiating, and that Premier Kishi hopes to sign on a forthcoming visit...