Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciative of America's magnanimity during and after the Occupation, have largely preferred a cautious, indirect approach when writing about relations with the U.S. But the new assertiveness shown by Ishihara intrigues many Japanese citizens: in a recent poll, his name placed third among likely candidates for the prime ministership. Many political insiders feel he is too controversial to get the top job. But Ishihara himself insists that "Japan needs a leader who can say yes or no clearly," as he told TIME's Seiichi Kanise in the following interview...
...fulfillment of her father's fantasies. In the first truly free elections since the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq began his eleven years of autocratic rule, voters catapulted her Pakistan People's Party to dominance in the nation's politics and put Bhutto within reach of the prime- ministership once held by her beloved father. Dreams do come true. Scores do get settled...
That bloc worked to his advantage against his rivals for the prime ministership. While former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe could boast of wide- ranging international contacts and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa could traipse through Japan's bureaucratic jungle blindfolded, Takeshita had the greatest leverage in the party itself...
...Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final draft. Indeed, he had gone through a ceremony in which he assumed the prime ministership just four hours before the post was abolished, together with the entire Assembly...
...Minister of Agriculture called "the biggest tragedy of this century for the people of India." Yet hardly had Sanjay been cremated (at the same site as his grandfather) than attention turned to his brother Rajiv, who now seemed, if only by default, next in line for the prime ministership...