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...HOURS, IT LOOKED AS IF PRIME MINISTER Kiichi Miyazawa would weaken his political opponents in a shrewdly orchestrated maneuver. When Michio Watanabe, 69, announced he would resign from his post of Foreign Minister owing to poor health, Miyazawa offered the position to former Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata. Hata heads a rebellious faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and has hinted that he might create a new party. Miyazawa apparently thought he could distract Hata from his cause by luring the renegade into his Cabinet with a prestigious post. Hata, however, declined the offer, saying he wanted to "stay...
...agree: the "money politics" that they shrugged off when the country was prosperous seems unbearable in hard times. As a result, Shin Kanemaru, the most powerful behind-the-scenes manipulator in the Liberal Democratic Party during the past decade, could actually serve a jail sentence. He was forced to resign his parliamentary seat for accepting $4 million in illegal political contributions from a trucking company. But public fury would not let prosecutors drop the case. In March they raided Kanemaru's office and found a safe containing $31 million in bonds, $960,000 worth of gold bars...
Heyman said he definitely plans to return to Harvard. Harvard professors are allowed only two concurrent years of leave, and the appointee said he does not know if he will have to resign and "hope for reappointment...
Business School sources said Strickland gave Halloran one week to resign "or else be micro-managed to the point of insanity...
Gomes, who lost his job on February 4, charged earlier this month that Strickland forced him to resign after a dispute over department "policy...