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...Suzuki ends a lackluster term...
When Zenko Suzuki, 71, became Prime Minister of Japan 2¼ years ago, he confidently pledged to reduce the government bureaucracy, eliminate the budget deficit and promote a "politics of harmony." But Suzuki never made good on any of those promises. Faced with declining public support and growing dis content within his Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), Suzuki told his advisers last week that he would not seek the nomi nation for the party presidency at its Oct. 16 meeting, thereby effectively resigning as Prime Minister. Said he:"I consider it my last service as party president to imbue our party...
...sudden announcement was greeted in Japan with a combination of surprise and relief. According to a poll published last month, popular approval for Suzuki had slipped to less than 30%, the lowest level since his inauguration. Among the 52% who disapproved of Suzuki's performance, the reason most often given was his "lack of doing anything of note...
Virtually waist deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well...
Although the Suzuki solution fell far short of their earlier demands, neither China nor South Korea seemed willing last week to risk lucrative trade ties with Tokyo for the sake of setting the record straight. China's Foreign Ministry summoned Japan's ambassador to demand an earlier revision, even while officials in Peking sent word to Suzuki through informal channels that he was still welcome to visit China this fall for the tenth anniversary of the normalization of ties between the two countries...