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...well they might be. Sato's conservative Liberal Democratic Party had entered Japan's tenth postwar election with the expectation of a setback. The government was wreathed in a "black mist" of Cabinet-level corruption charges, harassed by catapulting consumer prices and a hostile press. Besides, there was worry about the reaction of a nervously pacifist nation to Sato's support of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. In view of all this, many conservatives feared losses of as many as 40 seats in the 486-man Lower House. But when the votes were in, Liberal Democrats...
When conservative Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the Diet last December, it appeared that the major issue in the campaign would be the charges of corruption that had wreathed his Cabinet in "Black Mist." Not so. Japan's newspapers have been dominated-and the public mind captured-by the chaotic events next door in Red China. Campaigning from snowy northern Honshu to sunny Shikoku, Sato was quick to take advantage of the public preoccupation. "We must never become like our neighbor," Sato cried in village after village last week. "Over there, there's no freedom, and without freedom...
...complex soup containing, among other things, nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, ozone (a highly active and poisonous form of oxygen) and peroxyacyl nitrate (commonly called PAN). "London smog," on the other hand, usually contains high quantities of sulphur oxides that react with moisture to produce a dilute but corrosive sulphuric-acid mist. Though air conditioners can effectively filter pollutant particles out of the air, the troublesome gaseous contaminants pass through unhindered. Thus city dwellers who feel that they have found sanctuary from the smog in sealed and air conditioned offices and apartments are actually in an atmosphere that may be little better...
Chief culprits in the Donora, London and New York smog disasters were probably sulphur dioxide and sulphur trioxide, which, either in gaseous form or converted into sulphuric-acid mist, can irritate the skin, eyes and upper respiratory tract. Extreme exposure, such as might occur in an industrial accident, can do irreparable damage to the lungs-and even attack the enamel on teeth...
Sato can also draw hope from his past record. Despite the black mist, he has improved relations with South Korea, promoted aid to the undeveloped nations of Southeast Asia and given new stability to his country's vigorous economy, which is growing 8% a year...