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Hara-Kiri. Premier Takeo Miki instructed the Japanese embassy in Washington to request the names of any government officials believed to have taken Lockheed bribes. Senator Church said he would be happy to turn over the names if his subcommittee can pry them out of Lockheed, but that he would pass them on "through channels," presumably meaning the State Department. That could pose a dilemma for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has opposed making the names public for fear of damaging friendly governments...
...since ex-Premier Kakuei Tanaka resigned 15 months ago under charges of shady financial dealings. Fearful of voter reaction, the ruling Liberal Democrats now plan to put off until the fall parliamentary elections that were expected this spring. After marathon sessions with worried party members from the Diet, Premier Takeo Miki ordered an investigation by a lower-house committee, which this week will hear testimony from key principals in the case...
...their part, were annoyed by Gromyko's refusal to return to Japan the four islands in the southern Kurile chain that the Soviets had seized at the end of the war in 1945. Riled by Moscow's unwillingness to settle the long-standing quarrel, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki told Gromyko that Japan would sign the treaty with China "as soon as possible...
...postwar summit meeting devoted exclusively to economics. The three-day gathering will bring together government chiefs of six nations that account for roughly 70% of the non-Communist world's production and trade: U.S. President Gerald Ford, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Premier Aldo Moro. Their purpose: to discuss ways in which their countries can cooperate to lift the industrial world out of its worst business slump since the 1930s...
...last year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping to the schedule. They will be trailed by a retinue of 22, headed by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda and including the imperial household's grand steward, grand chamberlain, grand master of cerermonies and a covey of ladies in waiting...