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...half of the new female legislators have no political experience. They wooed voters by calling themselves "ordinary women" and "mothers and housewives," and campaigned on such issues as education, welfare and ridding the political system of corruption. "Let the voice from the kitchen be heard in government," said Nobuko Mori, 57, a winning candidate from western Okayama...
Shoes, belt, a gray felt hat and a dark suit, still neatly pressed after 25 years, all rest in the Dallas office of lawyer Jules Mayer, a kind of macabre shrine to his former client Jack Ruby. Missing from this memento mori: the .38-cal. Colt Cobra that killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This bizarre souvenir of the assassination may be worth as much as $250,000 at auction. At least that's what Mayer claims as he squabbles with Ruby's two brothers and two sisters over who has rights...
...lead," said Robert Waller of Harris Research, polltakers for the Conservatives, whose figures projected a 40- to 50-seat government majority in the 650-member House of Commons. "Labor's won the campaign, but Thatcher's going to win the election," predicted Robert Worcester, managing director of the MORI polling firm, whose latest survey gives the Tories 43% of the vote to Labor's 32%. "But it will narrow enough in the final days to give the Tories the queasies...
Until recently Conservative strategists were urging an October date for elections, which must be held by the summer of 1988. With the Tories' popularity soaring, however, the balloting could be moved up to June. A Mori survey published Sunday showed that if the election were held now, the Conservatives would win 39% of the vote, Labor 33% and the Alliance...
...hope," Miyake remarked toward the end of the Tokyo shows, "that my contemporaries and I will be the last to have to go to Paris." With Hishinuma and Onozuka, Kumagai and Takayuki Mori bidding to loom large on the Eastern horizon, it might be wise for everyone to start rearranging travel plans right...