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...Nakasone's success has started to turn sour. Last week the L.D.P. suffered an embarrassing 64% to 30% defeat at the hands of the opposition Socialist Party in a special election to fill a Diet seat in a district long regarded as a ruling-party stronghold. A poll released last week by the daily Asahi Shimbun reported that support for Nakasone has dropped over the past three months from 39% to 25%. And in cities around the country, leftist unions have joined hands with conservative shopkeepers to braid hangmen's nooses that are used on effigies of the Prime Minister...
International security and real disarmament are impossible without greater trust between the nations of the West and the U.S.S.R. and other socialist countries. There must be a settlement of regional conflicts on the basis of compromise and restoration of stability wherever it has been disrupted. Support for destabilizing and extremist forces and all terrorist groups should be ended, along with attempts to expand the sphere of influence of one side at the expense of the other. All countries should work together on economic, social and ecological problems. Greater openness and democracy in our country are necessary. We need the free...
...settlement of regional conflicts; parity in conventional arms; liberalization, democratization and greater openness of Soviet society; observance of civil and political rights; a compromise solution on the issue of antimissile defenses without combining it in a package with other questions of strategic weapons. Convergence -- a rapprochement of the socialist and capitalist systems -- offers a real and lasting solution to the problem of international security...
...favor of democracy first and then unification," said a Korea University sophomore. Such views reflect a brand of thought that one U.S. diplomat labels "infantile Marxism." Says a Seoul prosecutor who has handled many cases against radical students: "They harbor some romantic views on the nature of the socialist state, and their idealism leads them to think that some of the problems of our society could be solved by socialism. But few understand or are dedicated to bringing the North Korean system here." Nor do they apparently realize that any unified state that the North Korean regime accepts would have...
Palazzo Chigi, the Renaissance building where Italy's Prime Minister works, is swathed in green netting while workmen repair its deteriorating facade. Last week the government inside was also crumbling. Citing deep rifts in his five- party coalition, Socialist Bettino Craxi resigned as Prime Minister after 3 1/ 2 years, ending Italy's longest postwar government...