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...first such maneuver may be the resignation of Premier Miki. Soon after the election, one Miki aide asked rhetorically, "Why do we admire cherry blossoms so much? Because they fall so quickly. When they're still beautiful, still pure, the aesthetic is right. That's why Miki will resign." Miki himself told an associate, "The Japanese sense of grace will not permit me to stay." With that, he withdrew for the weekend to his mountain villa 80 miles west of Tokyo to put the final touches on what is expected to be an unusual combination: an offer...
...Secretary of State is disappointing for a number of reasons. As a Defense Department official during the Johnson administration, Vance participated in high-level policy-making in the period when the United States was maximizing its involvement in Vietnam. Vance did not protest the war, he did not resign his post, and indeed by representing the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, he served as an active instrument of the Johnson war policy. These factors alone should disqualify him from holding the highest foreign policy office in the nation...
...more than a year ago and is generally considered the front runner with an estimated 100 votes pledged to him. Burton played a key role in early 1975 in thwarting a move to oust Wayne Hays from his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. When Hays was forced to resign after the disclosure that he kept bosomy Elizabeth Ray on the Government payroll. Burton lost some support. Though Burton insists, "Tip and I will work very well together," the two men are often at odds; twice, Burton has challenged O'Neill to a fist fight...
...lackluster speaking style. If successful, Griffin would become the G.O.P.'s highest elected officeholder and, like the party's national chairman, an important articulator of Republican policy. As it happens, the present G.O.P. chairman, Mary Louise Smith, an Iowa housewife, announced last week that she would resign. That sets the stage for a battle royal between conservatives and moderates for control of the party's machinery...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...