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...promptly dubbed the "Rigged Dissolution" be cause U.S. occupation authorities were the ones who arranged it. In 1952 came the "Surprise Dissolution" that caught everyone unawares. The "You Fool Dissolution" took its name from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's angry retort to a heckler in 1953. When Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the ninth postwar Diet last week and called for new elections to be held on Jan. 29, his move seemed destined to go down in history as the "Black Mist Dissolution"; it developed from the fog of corruption and influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Nov. 4) that have embarrassed...
Three Warnings. For Sato, who inherited the post of Premier after the retirement of ailing Liberal Democratic Party Leader Hayato Ikeda two years ago, this month's election will be his first test at the polls. He is well aware that he has a fight on his hands. In a party caucus after he dissolved the lower house, Sato warned members three times to lay off any hanky-panky and to avoid even a whisper of scandal during their campaigns. "The recent mor als problem," Sato admitted to the nation in a public statement, "has greatly impaired the people...
...Sato's one consolation is that the op position parties are in no better shape than his own Liberal Democrats. The far-left Socialists, who held 141 seats in the lower house, still call for class warfare and complete nationalization of all Japanese industry, which hardly endears them to the country's increasingly prosperous electorate. The middle-of-the-road Democratic Socialists, who held 23 seats, are simply too vacillating to generate wide support. And the neo-Buddhist Clean Government Party, which will be running in its first general election, is too new and too limited...
...Sato can also draw hope from his past record. Despite the black mist, he has improved relations with South Korea, promoted aid to the undeveloped nations of Southeast Asia and given new stability to his country's vigorous economy, which is growing 8% a year...
...showdown, the vote split along predictable factional lines: 313 for Hard-liner Sasaki v. 274 for Eda and his vision. It was a guarantee that if Premier Sato does call a general election next month, the major opposition will not only still be out of touch with modern Japan, but will also be even more badly divided than his own scandal-tainted Liberal Democrats...