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...Prime Minister is cast in a very different mold. The son of a wealthy lumber dealer, he served as a naval paymaster in The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and Formosa (now Taiwan) during World War II. For a few years after the war he was so embittered that he insisted on always wearing a black tie, since "every Japanese should be in mourning." But in the early '60s, Nakasone was deeply impressed by the political style of the late Robert F Kennedy, from whom he picked up the very un-Japanese habit of shaking hands with everyone...
DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...
...Helms with the awed coverage that inflates a politician's ego and image. But the fearsome scion of the New Right has actually proved a far less effective legislator than is commonly assumed. More prudent colleagues from both sides of the aisles have so far blocked his crusade to mold the constitution to his vision of a God-fearing country. His initiative on prayer and abortion have faltered, and the sweeping anti-busing bill he pushed through the Senate has not received a friendly welcome in the House...
...debate will be fully aired at a four-day meeting of the bishops' conference in Washington beginning Nov. 15. The tactful and diplomatic Bernardin, who is called a "George Shultz of the Catholic hierarchy," will work to mold a consensus around his committee's draft. A special meeting will be called, probably next spring, to vote on the final version. If it passes by a two-thirds margin, it will be sent to all parishes to become a guide for Catholic teachings. Even if adopted, the letter is likely to remain a matter of controversy among members. Says...
...reading included news about the struggles of the Spanish Communist Party and the expulsion in 1964 of two prominent members, Writer Jorge Semprun and Marxist Economic Theorist Fernando Claudin, for breaches of party discipline. González realized his freedom-loving mind could never fit into so narrow a mold. Says he: "Claudin and Semprun are responsible for my being a Socialist today, not a Communist." González joined the party's youth wing, the Young Socialists, at a time when all political parties were banned and membership could result in a jail term. After earning his degree...