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Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital, lay encircled by Communist forces. All five highways leading to the city were under siege, and three outposts along the road to the provincial capital of Takeo had been lost. More important, the Communists had severed, for the moment at least, the vital Mekong River supply route from South Viet Nam. A convoy of about a dozen ships, already ten days overdue in the Cambodian capital, was delayed in the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau while the Cambodian armed forces and U.S. bombers tried to clear the riverbanks of enemy rocket launchers...
...crucial steering committee will make it harder for the government to adhere to its legislative calendar. The Communists intend to probe more deeply into scandals linking the Premier to alleged real estate deals. In Tanaka's own party, his rival for the leadership, former Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, emerged with the largest single faction and undiminished ambition to take over, should the Premier make a misstep...
...predecessor, Eisaku Sato, 71. The new Premier's election automatically followed his victory in a hard-fought struggle for leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose popularity had eroded in the later years of Sato's 7½-year regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last week was the final shokku. Sato nearly wept as Fukuda was trounced by the upstart millionaire, 282 to 190, in a second-ballot...
Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, a financial expert who is closely aligned with Sato, reportedly went into the contest with the largest gunshikin, or war chest, amounting to about 1 billion yen ($3,077,000), thanks in part to the help of the domestic oil industry. Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a roughhewn construction millionaire, has a fund reputed to total about...
Even the two lesser candidates, former Foreign Ministers Masayoshi Ohira and Takeo Miki, reported contributions of $1,720,000 and $1,520,000 for 1971 and have received hefty sums since-often from the same firms that finance the leading candidates, but like to hedge their bets...