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Miki has been trying to enhance his image as the Mr. Clean of Japanese politics. Since taking over the government in 1974, he has been free of the taint of wheeling and dealing that has made the Japanese public increasingly cynical about its leaders in general. He played on this theme last week at his press conference by accusing the party bosses of dictatorially trying to control events through an agreement among themselves. That may prove to be a persuasive point with the public. A recent poll conducted by the Kyodo News Service indicated that only 12% of the Japanese...
...outworn notion-a shocking bit of revisionism that brought a sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow fades, they believe, the chances will grow for a leftist-coalition victory at the polls in 1978. Thus Revel's broadside, reviving all the old French fears about the true face of Communism, provoked immediate reaction from not only Communists but French Socialists as well...
...with continued high unemployment, will damage his chances; and as one aide says, "It may be a narrow prosperity he's enjoying-a reverse of some kind could hurt him badly." But at the moment, he can take satisfaction in no longer being an accidental President fearing the taint of the man who chose him. The caretaker is in the process of becoming the proud owner of the White House, and it will not be easy to dislodge...
Cambodia's new leaders were apparently driven by a xenophobic determination to rid the country of foreign influence, not just the taint of "Americans and other imperialist lackeys" but also the influence of even the Chinese and North Vietnamese. Moscow, which had maintained diplomatic relations with the former Lon Nol government almost to the end, was rejected utterly: the second floor of the Soviet embassy was strafed with machine-gunfire, and the seven Russian diplomats there ordered to go to the French embassy compound to be evacuated with the other foreigners. From that precarious vantage point, they saw hundreds...
...about 2%), with the help of a Manhattan political-research firm and a Boston advertising agency. A TV commercial showed a Dole poster with mud being thrown at it, then the mud miraculously falling away to reveal the handsome Dole unblemished. By thus aggressively fighting back against the taint of Watergate, Dole managed to accuse his opponent of "Watergate tactics...