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...Irene M. Kunii...
...Reported by Eric J. Lyman and Douglass Stinson/Lima and Irene M. Kunii and Satsuki Oba/Tokyo
...With reporting by Irene M. Kunii and Hiroko Tashiro/Tokyo
...Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto officially dissolved Parliament Friday and set elections for October 20. Japan's political parties had long expected the move and have been preparing for the beginning of a new political campaign. The current Parliament's four-year term doesn't expire until July 1997, but Irene Kunii reports from TIME's Tokyo bureau that Hashimoto's Liberal Democratic Party felt now represented its best chance to pick up seats in the 500-seat lower house. The dominant LDP holds 206 seats in the lower house and shares power with two other parties including, curiously enough, the socialists...
...stations preempted regularly- scheduled programming to broadcast all day from outside the courthouse. Reporters shuttled back and forth from the courtroom to give live reports in the trial. Much of today's session was taken up with the reading of the names of 3,789 victims. Tokyo correspondent Irene Kunii says Asahara dozed off at times during the reading. Asahara faces 17 charges, including last March's subway attack and another nerve gas attack in 1994. Asahara faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is found guilty by the four- judge panel. Kunii says there is little doubt...