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...That ruthless streak will come in handy as Koizumi pursues his ambition to destroy old Japan. His ideological role model is Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, whom he escorted around the Diet when she visited Japan back in the 1980s. Her mantras are his: privatize, cut government spending and stop mollycoddling loser companies. It's the opposite of his predecessors' prescription for Japan's woes. They spent more than $1 trillion over the past decade trying to rev up the moribund economy; Koizumi has promised to end this profligate spending, starting with a 10% cut in next year...
...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...Sister Joan and her congregation are willing to accept the risk of speaking out on this issue. Many of us (myself included) who work within the church are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of losing our jobs. In the 21st century, that fact itself is a disgrace. MARGARET SMITH Rochester...
...years." Indeed Black, who is married to columnist Barbara Amiel, a Briton who grew up in Canada (he has three children from a previous marriage), spends half the year at his home in London. He has close ties to the British Conservative Party and, like his friend Margaret Thatcher, opposes increased British integration into the E.U. Born to a wealthy family, Black demonstrated an early flair for entrepreneurship. When he was eight he spent his entire $60 savings on one General Motors share. Later, he sold stolen exams to fellow students at a prestigious Toronto boys' school - and was expelled...
...Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major weighed in behind contenders Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke, respectively. In the candidates' first head-to-head television debate, the fault line once again developed around Britain's relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners...