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...summit meeting devoted exclusively to economics. The three-day gathering will bring together government chiefs of six nations that account for roughly 70% of the non-Communist world's production and trade: U.S. President Gerald Ford, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Aldo Moro. Their purpose: to discuss ways in which their countries can cooperate to lift the industrial world out of its worst business slump since the 1930s...
JAPAN is on the road back to prosperity, though no one would think so after listening to the hand-wringing comments of its government and business leaders. Prime Minister Miki laments that "never before have we experienced so complex and difficult an economic situation as this one." Nonetheless, output is expected to rise 2.2% this year and 5.7% in 1976. That follows Japan's first genuine postwar recession, which was brought on by a government clampdown on demand and credit last year after the explosion in world oil prices sent Japanese inflation soaring to a frightening annual rate...
...public funeral for former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in June of this year, a right-wing extremist slipped through the lines and punched Prime Minister Takeo Miki in the face, knocking him down. That prompted formation of a new security force modeled on the U.S. Secret Service and made up of crack recruits trained in judo, marksmanship and detection of movement within a 90 vision field. The greatest threat of violence in recent years has come from new-left radicals, some 6,000 of whom have vowed to stop Emperor Hirohito from boarding his plane this week for a state...
Back in the White House, Ford shifted his attention from West to East and started patching up relations with Japan, which had been shaken by the U.S. rapprochement with mainland China and the Communist victory in Viet Nam. Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki made it clear that Japan wants a strong and continuing American presence in the Far East, and the two leaders also reaffirmed their view that the independence of South Korea is "necessary for peace and security in East Asia, including Japan...
...three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...