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...week, the Japanese paid almost as much attention to it as they would have to the real Judgment Day. But then, the seven-year court battle did star Kakuei Tanaka, the former Prime Minister who still reigns as the country's shrewdest powerbroker. As the dark blue Chrysler sedan wheeled Tanaka from his palatine compound on the fringes of Tokyo to the courthouse downtown, a swarm of 17 helicopters loaded with TV cameras and newsmen followed along overhead. Arriving at the Tokyo District Court, Tanaka faced a jostling battalion of some 1,500 reporters, photographers and television crews...
...historic moments go, the occasion turned out to be distinctly undramatic, a subdued finish to a tempestuous career. Early last Thursday afternoon, Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor drove his white Fiat sedan through the steel gates at the official residence of President Chaim Herzog. Waving to a band of reporters and photographers, Meridor trotted up the stairs to the paneled, book-lined office where Herzog was awaiting him. "The Prime Minister asked me to convey to the President of the state his letter of resignation," said the Secretary, whereupon he handed Herzog a white envelope. The letter inside was brief...
...family in a four-room apartment in the outskirts of Kobe, a port city. Six days a week, he gets up at 7 and eats a Western-style breakfast prepared by his 32-year-old wife Sanae. Then he is out the door and into a Toyota Crown sedan, which he drives 40 minutes to his company's head office in a bustling section of Osaka (pop. 2.6 million...
...Rome's deluxe Excelsior Hotel, with a 50% American clientele, a single room costs from $92 to $118. However, a centrally located double room with bath in a comfortable but nonswank hotel can cost as little as $37. A medium-size rental sedan, say a Fiat 131, goes for $559 a week with unlimited mileage...
...Valley, Arafat was working hard to strengthen his position as well as to demonstrate his continuing support. On one of these excursions, his eight-vehicle motorcade raced over the rutted, dusty roads of eastern Lebanon at 70 m.p.h., with the chairman riding in a dark-blue, late-model Chevrolet sedan equipped with bulletproof windows. At a stop along the way, as a group of bedraggled soldiers stood around him, Arafat said of the mutiny, "It is over. It is over." Again he blamed Gaddafi for the trouble, declaring that the Libyan leader "thought his money and his petroleum were more...