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They called it Blackout Monday. All over the nation's capital bleary bureaucrats, lobbyists and pols stared over their morning newspapers in sudden shock. A shakeup? A scandal? A sudden outbreak of civility? No, far worse: Doonesbury was missing...
...Premier suddenly fired all but one of his 22 Cabinet ministers, most of whom were political appointees, and named a new team chosen on the basis of merit. A prime goal of the shakeup, Fukuda indicated, was to pump up the domestic economy, which should not only please Japanese consumers and workers but give businessmen more incentive to sell at home rather than abroad. Underscoring Japan's concern about its strained trade relations with the U.S. and Europe, Fukuda also created a new Cabinet post, Minister of External Economic Affairs, and named Nobuhiko Ushiba, 68, a former Ambassador...
...general counsel, visited Tokyo. The Americans demanded that Japan step up its domestic economic growth to 8% a year or so, as an alternative to reliance on exports, and that it set a specific date for converting its trade surplus to a deficit. Fukuda responded with the Cabinet shakeup; his new ministers are already at work hammering out a program that Ushiba will present to Carter aides in Washington sometime this month...
Morris found an attorney (James Turner, a consumer lawyer and former Nader employee), initiated a grievance proceeding and publicized his case. His accusations led to a General Accounting Office investigation and to Senate hearings, which in turn led to a major shakeup in the vaccine regulatory agency. The Bureau of Biologics was revamped and transferred from NIH to the FDA, and in 1972 a grievance panel reinstated Morris and censured the agency for harassing...
...after eight years in power, Canadians see him as all too familiar and feel the same way about his government. With the popularity of his Liberal regime fairly crashing in the polls, Trudeau last week decided it was time for a cosmetic treatment. He announced a sweeping Cabinet shakeup, unmistakably designed to help him get back into good graces with the electorate before the next elections...