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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed to wed the troubled CRP program, which has emphasized analytical and public policy program at the Kennedy School. Under Bok's plan, the GSD would replace it with a new urban planning and design program, one with a more traditional physical planning curriculum...
Gerald M. McCue, professor of Architecture and Urban Design and new dean of the GSD as of June 1980, said Bok decided to shift the program because it had moved further and further away from the traditional planning curriculum goals...
...currently prepares analysts who become planning adjuncts of government," he said, adding that the school "wants to prepare students who really want to design pieces of new neighborhoods and towns...
Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira provoked this Circus Maximus by taking a gamble--one most observers thought he would win easily. He dissolved Japan's parliament, the Diet, in September, and called for a new election less than a year after his surprise victory in the last party election. Nothing recent conservative gains in local elections, Ohira saw a chance to buttress his own power with a big victory for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which in recent years has lost the Diet majority it had maintained through the last three decades. Ohira stumped for a tax hike to combat...
THESE rivalries erupted in a spectacular display of pettiness, absurdity and irresponsibility during the party elections in the Diet to determine the new prime minister. At one point, the Fukuda camp set up a blockade to prevent Ohira supporters from entering the Diet. Burly Ohira guards smashed the barrier, screaming obscenities into whirring television cameras. Ohira himself blocked Diet votes on the premiership three times, holding out to retain his power while the Diet remained paralyzed. After futile attempts at compromise with Fukuda, Ohira retained his seat by a mere 17 votes in the first runoff premier election in Japan...